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Myra MacPherson (born 1934) is an American author, biographer, and journalist known for writing about politics, the Vietnam War, feminism, and death and dying.Although her work has appeared in many publications, she had a long affiliation with The Washington Post newspaper.
His 2011 book is Columbus: The Four Voyages, a New York Times bestseller. [citation needed] It was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, BOMC2, the History Book Club, and the Military Book Club, and was a New York Times Book Review "Editors Choice". In 2016, he published Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius, available from Simon ...
(a History Book Club Selection, a Washington Post Best Book of 2005, and a 2005 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement); Ohio: The History of a People, The Ohio State University Press, 2002. Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, edited with Fredrika J. Teute, UNC Press, 1998.
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His The Land They Fought For (1955), about the nullification crisis of 1832 through the Civil War became a finalist for the 1956 National Book Award. [3] For the rest of his life, Dowdey lived in Richmond and worked as a writer of historical fiction and history, the city's first vocational writer since Edgar Allan Poe.
Franco-Prussian War (Cambridge, 2003) was the main selection of the History Book Club and Military Book Club and received a best non-fiction mention from Publishers Weekly, Nov. 2003. Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East , Penguin Press, 2010.
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Fletcher Pratt (left) with fellow Baker Street Irregulars Christopher Morley and Rex Stout (1944). According to de Camp, Pratt was born near Tonawanda, New York.The son of Robert M. and Alice Horton Pratt, he attended public schools in Buffalo and graduated from high school in 1915 at the Griffith Institute in Springville, New York, where his father operated a trucking delivery service between ...