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In this memoir, Lilly Dancyger explores her own anger, grief, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness her father hid from her, as well as her own.

Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Kathleen Krull reveals Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for "scientist" back in the 1700s), a man whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity, including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.

Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman reflects on his childhood with his award-winning father, Sid Fleischman, and details his own path to becoming a writer in this book that is part memoir, part travelogue, and part reflection on craft and creativity.

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world's most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling. Each short chapter focuses on one author's life, using simple, entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers.

The Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over two hundred men, starting with their undergraduate days in 1938. George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement.

This biography, based on hundreds of documents and firsthand interviews, captures the complete arc of Bobby Fischer's remarkable life, from his meteoric rise and dominant prime to his descent into madness.

In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging the preeminent mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. It was the beginning of a collaboration with a true genius of the century.

Alexander Domokos wrote this memoir of his years during and after World War II with two purposes in mind: to allow his daughter a glimpse into his past and to enlighten others about the tragic effects of the war on his homeland, Hungary.

Georgia O'Keeffe, renowned for her fierce independence and unique artistic vision, had a personal mystique as intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvasses. Here is a full account of her exceptional life.

David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother.