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She had been in the air for almost a full day. Alone. Over three thousand miles of dark, freezing ocean, flying into a headwind that had...
For more than forty years, one of America’s most important rare-book experts walked the marble halls of a Manhattan library that bore another man’s name. She...
Madrid, June 19, 2014. On a balcony above the Plaza de Oriente, a girl in a wool coat stood between her parents and waved to a...
She thought it was a typo. Sometime around 1961, a young woman named Sheila Michaels was sorting through the mail in her Manhattan apartment when she...
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Anne Sexton built a career out of saying the unsayable. Decades before public figures spoke openly about depression or trauma, she stood in front of packed...
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For most of a century, the people on her street were certain she had nothing. Mary Elinor Sauerwein was born on January 10, 1914, and her...