Life for Edith Wharton in Paris was lived in stimulating freedom and aristocratic luxury until World War I broke out. Shocked by...
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
Kurt Vonnegut wrote the kind of books that students in the 1960s bought to stoke their outrage and disdain. Outrage over the...
Jack Kerouac invented a fantasy baseball game with homemade cards that he played well into adulthood. After he played the games, he...