Jane Austen
by Claire Tomalin |
Charles Dickens
by Claire Tomalin |
The Rockefellers
by Peter Collier | 
Five Sisters
by James Fox | 
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
by Susan Nagel |
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
by Diana Souhami |
Morgan
by Jean Strouse | 
The Most Famous Man in America
by Debby Applegate |
Nightingales
by Gillian Gill | 
Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Joan D. Hedrick |
Christopher Marlowe
by Park Honan |
The Patriarch
by David Nasaw |
The Fords
by Peter Collier |
Kissinger
by Walter Isaacson |
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
by Elaine Showalter |
The Peabody Sisters
by Megan Marshall |
Whittaker Chambers
by Sam Tanenhaus |
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Claire Tomalin | 
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne |
In a brilliant piece of detective work, Tomalin--whose book about Nelly Ternan, Charles Dickens's secret mistress, won prizes as the best biography of 1991--has retrieved Dora, her story and her world, from the obscurity of lost letters and unexamined documents. As social history, the tale is irresistible; as a love story with a painful and brutal ending, it is unforgettable.