Q: As a scholar of English, what first drew you to the life and works of Emily Dickinson? A: It’s important to know that I was a reader of Emily Dickinson before I became a scholar of English. My passion for writings and writers, especially poets, determined my life’s work. Even when I was choosing my dissertation topic in the…...

Alan Schom, former professor of French and European history at the University of California, Riverside, and Southern Connecticut State University, has written a monumental and richly detailed biography of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Despite a plethora of texts on the great man, describing his many exploits and the myths of his effect on Europe during his reign from 1795-1815,…...