... inspiring essays and scientific insight, according to Sagan's biographer. Using the pseudonym "Mr. X", Sagan wrote about his pot ... Lester Grinspoon, recently disclosed the secret to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. Davidson, a writer for the San Francisco ...

... inspiring essays and scientific insight, according to Sagan's biographer. Using the pseudonym "Mr. X", Sagan wrote about his pot ... Lester Grinspoon, recently disclosed the secret to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. Davidson, a writer for the San Francisco ...

The biographer a plantation mistress who dedicated herself to "write what is, even if it is unpleasant," will lead a discussion at Hendrix ...

... as the stone walls in Vermont alone had been built by a king or potentate, it would be one of the wonders of the world." Biographer David McCullough writes that President John Adams described his physical activities in retirement as beginning at five or ...

... era German poet, playwright and theater director (and thief, woman-hater and hypocrite, if you believe some of his biographers). After creating the hugely successful 1928 pro-Marxist musical "The Threepenny Opera," Brecht found himself in the ...

The story of Julia Peterkin's life and career is odd in many ways, according to biographer Susan Millar Williams. Dr. Williams, a Hendrix College graduate who spoke at the college Thursday, has written a book about ...

... departure from the past precedent of the first three presidents! "The ball became a symbol of a new era," says Dolley Madison biographer Catherine Allgor. "It said there was a new sheriff in town, and that sheriff was Dolley Madison." The ball reassured ...

Geneva Overholser Among biographers, brevity is little valued. Just as academic tomes are all the more admired for having tiny readership, biographies are most ...

"No stone is left unturned," raves the New York Times in review of Park Honan's latest work, Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. "Honan offers an almost hour-by-hour account of Marlowe's final day, an intriguing theory about the killer's motives and an inquiry into the fatal wound worthy of CSI."

... skirting the law on several occasions. He loved singing gospel songs in his hotel and dressing rooms and yet, according to his biographers, also loved extramarital affairs and being a voyeur with a secret, one-way viewing window in his Los Angeles home to ...