Ruth Reichl has always seen the world in terms of food. In her two memoirs, Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me With Apples, the important events and people in her life are always defined by the meals that accompanied them. And she transformed the art of restaurant reviewing, in ...

Nikki Giovanni has always forged her own path through life. She self-published her first volumes of poetry, Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgement, because they were considered out of the mainstream at that time. And as a result, she became a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement of ...

David Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting on the Vietnam War; his book The Best and the Brightest is considered the definitive work on that conflict. His other books, including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, The Breaks of the Game, The Fifties, The Children, and ...

Zoe Caldwell has always gone wherever the acting jobs took her; from her native Australia to Stratford-upon-Avon in Britain, then on to Canada, and eventually New York. She's won four Tony Awards, has played opposite such legends as Laurence Olivier, Dame Edith Evans and Paul Robeson, and her portrayals of ...