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A war hero once begged for scraps outside the churches of Buenos Aires. People walked past her every day. A ragged old woman, hand out, asking...
Four men carrying weapons boarded the plane disguised as airport security guards. The youngest flight attendant on board was 22 years old. Within seconds, she became...
She was offered a place at the most celebrated architectural event of the century. She turned it down over a paycheck. And in doing so, she...
Before sunrise, while most of her classmates were still asleep, a young girl in Connecticut was already lacing up her skates. That was Dorothy Hamill’s childhood:...
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...
She played Romeo. She played Hamlet. She played Cardinal Wolsey. And she did it while the whole country watched, cheered, and called her “Our Charlotte.” Charlotte...
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...