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How He Sought to Bring the Figure of the Mining Engineer to the Stage

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Louisa May Alcott: A Difficult Woman Who Got Things Done

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On Writing the Alcott Sisters, in All Their Complexity

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Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive

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James Atlas on the Dangers of Befriending Your Subject

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The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created <em>Curious George</em>

The German-Jewish Refugees Who Created Curious George

"Theirs Was a Life of Exile and, Thereafter, Self-Invention"

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