Jules Cash, Author, Edith Nesbit, Author, Jules Cashford, Author Shambhala Publications $15 (29p) ISBN 978-1-56957-909-1 Wonderfully rich Egyptian myths inspire this volume, but they are mummified in ...

Edith Head (1897 - 1981), Hollywood's best known and most successful costume designer. She won eight Academy Awards and numerous Oscar nominations. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Edith Head is ...

This winter, as readers and writers celebrate the book's centennial around the world, her own copy of the book has returned to her library at The Mount. The volume is the sixth printing of the first ...

Edith Vosefski, 90, finally caved in to the peer pressure of her friends and acquaintances: She wrote a book about her life. Looking at the cover of the recently released “The Nine Lives of Curious ...

TAKEN CARE OF by Edith Sitwell. 239 pages. Arheneum. $5.95. “Oh, why don’t they bury us?” sighs Dame Edith Sitwell in the final chapter of these memoirs, completed shortly before her death last ...

Edith Schloss in Ravenna, Italy, 1947. Photo: Rudy Burckhardt/©1947 The Estate of Rudy Burckhardt/Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York Edith Schloss in Ravenna, Italy, 1947. Photo: Rudy ...

Edith Hamilton was 7 when her father, a Fort Wayne, Ind., wholesale grocer, introduced her to the study of Latin. Edith’s parents were disenchanted with their mid-19th-century public schools, ...

There are people who, for reasons confounding and unfair, vanish under history’s dust. One of these is a woman named Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who lived from 1872 to 1932 and deserves, correctly ...

Edith Eger was just 16 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz, but what she saw there remained a secret for many years. Now an internationally renowned psychologist, Edith has devoted her life to ...

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