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In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county will come and take the child.” Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page.
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The author, a television producer and writer, shares his experiences raising a family in California, and interacting with various family pets and wildlife.

Biographer Diliberto examines the Hemingway legend for the first time from the perspective of the only woman whom Hemingway never stopped loving, offering a rare glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the American imagination and of the woman who provided the security and freedom he needed to pursue his genius. Hadley and Ernest were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the focal point of the expatriate community that boasted the likes...

"Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the 20th century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of the poet George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage...

Mark Twain is America's best-known and perhaps most popular writer. But until now little has been known about the love of his life--Olivia Langdon Clemens, his adored "Livy". In Mark and Livy, Resa Willis has redressed this oversight, presenting us with the fullest insights and details of four decades of courtship and marriage, showing us a famous writer at home and at work, and the splendid woman who was his consistent critic and companion, editor...