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Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
Category: Biography
Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief-maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her her "most influential writer." Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain's most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Chur ...Show more
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
Category: Biography
This is the definitive biography of the long and adventurous life of the queen of the muckrakers. Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, muckraker, and, mischief-maker. But those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain's most famou ...Show more
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody
Category: Biography
The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after generation of readers. Harriet is an erratic, unsentimental, and endearing prototype--someone very like the woman who dreamed her up, author and artis ...Show more
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