THE COMING FURY (565 pp.)—Bruce Catton—Doubleday ($7.50). In the beginning, the rebel leaders were an unlikely lot. Alabama’s William Lowndes Yancy was as mild a fellow as anyone would want to ...

A friend, progressively debilitated by a rare disease and recently deceased, afforded me during the late plague-times a great opportunity. Ralph was a learned man belonging to the same fraternity of ...

Northern Michigan has been home to some historically significant authors like Ernest Hemmingway, but did you know there’s another Pulitzer Prize winning author that grew up in Benzonia? In this week’s ...