Henry Carter Hull

Set in 1957, Head Games is a quirky, action-packed caper. When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Poncho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.

"Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel's...

Biography of nineteenth-century English poet John Keats, examining how his life influenced his work.

A young, American Catholic translates the memoirs of a Yiddish poet named Itsik Malpesh and finds himself inspired to learn more about the Yiddish language, and, in turn, himself.

This documentary film about the life of the remarkable author and illustrator of The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, is based on the successful biography. The film is full of examples of Beatrix Potter's exquisite watercolors. Narrated by Lynn Redgrave, with music by Ernest V. Troost.

Learn more about Jane Austen and her own fascinating life at a time in England’s history. Take a tour around the English landscape and see the lovely locations that inspired Jane Austen’s novels.

An in-depth biography of the famed author, Charles Dickens.

William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 11, 1862. In due course, he became a licensed pharmacist. In his colorful lifetime, he would also become a bank teller, a bookkeeper, a clerk, and illustrator, a draftsman in the General Land Office…a newspaperman, an editor, reporter, columnist, and cartoonist. "Will," as his family and neighbors called him, also learned to break a stubborn bronco, lasso cattle, shear sheep,...