American author Gay Talese is the bestselling author of eleven books. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1956 to 1965, and since then he has written for the Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and other national publications.
He shares his insight into Ernest Hemingway’s life and works as well as the craft of writing.
The undisputed “master of suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an iconic film director and producer…
Scotland’s greatest philosopher, David Hume (1711–1776) was a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. He…
The third and final member of a chain of Athenian philosophers who would shape the…
One of the most singularly talented pianists of all time, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) dominated the musical world…
Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, William Butler (W. B.) Yeats (1865–1939), is considered to this day…
Widely regarded as one of the greatest classical composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach…