In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.
John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family.
At the age of nineteen, Catherine Spalding (17931858) ventured into what would become a lifetime of leadership with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN)one of the most significant American religious communities for women.
The Essential Cardinal Newman Collection: Prayers, Meditations, and Other Spiritual Writings brings together the most inspiring prayers and profound reflections of one of the greatest Catholic minds of modern times.
After falling in love with and marrying a man two lifetimes older than her, Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet.
The northern community known as Peawanuck (Cree for Flint) is located approximately 32 kilometres up river from the former village of Winisk on the shore of Hudson Bay.
2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature - Longlisted2016 RBC Taylor Prize - LonglistedThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "e;Canada's first multicultural writer.
An all-encompassing view of the life and work of one of Canada's greatest living artistsMichael Snow is rightly recognized as one of the greatest Canadian artists.
Carl Dixon's journey through the twists and turns of a music performer's life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture.
In this special two-book bundle you'll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc.
Arguably, Sir John Willison had more influence on the evolution of Canada's emerging nationalism and public policy shifts than any other journalist had in his time or since.
The three artists whose lives are the subjects of Three Kentucky Artists-Joel Tanner Hart, Samuel Woodson Price, and Edward Troye-enjoyed considerable fame in their own day, though they are now little known outside of Kentucky.
On a muggy, late August afternoon in 1936, somewhere along the banks of Greasy Creek, Life found Grace-walking the dusty mile between work and home in a brand new pair of leather kitten-heeled pumps, blond curls bouncing in the sun.
Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took him from the boudoirs of Paris to the flintlock battlefields of North America and on to the luch islands of the South Pacific.
The three Kentucky presidents-Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis-were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the South, the East and the Western Frontier.
Este libro es más que un relato de victorias y medallas, es un viaje por cada caída, cada obstáculo y cada renacer que me ha hecho la mujer y atleta que soy.
