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Little Sparrow
A Portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky
By Don KennedyLittle Sparrow is the first complete biography in any language of Sophia Kovalevsky, the nineteenth-century Russian mathematical genius, champion of equal education for women, and first woman professor of higher mathematics.…
The Little Lion of the Southwest
A Life of Manuel Antonio Chaves
By Marc SimmonsManuel Antonio Chaves’ life straddled three eras of New Mexican history: he was born (1818) at the tag end of the Spanish colonial period, he grew to manhood in the rough and heady days of the Santa Fe trade during the quarter century of Mexican rule (1821-1846), and he spent his mature years under the territorial regime established by the United States.…
Antonin Artaud
Man of Vision
By Bettina L. KnappThe extraordinary actor–director–writer who developed his talent for self-torture into art to become one of the most vital creative forces of the century.
Midas of the Rockies
Story of Stratton & Cripple Creek
By Frank WatersThis reprint makes available again Frank Waters’ dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pike’s Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth.…
Graham R.
Rosamund Marriot Watson, Woman of Letters
By Linda K. HughesRosamund Marriott Watson was a gifted poet, an erudite literary and art critic, and a daring beauty whose life illuminates fin-de-siècle London and the way in which literary reputations are made—and lost.…
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