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Henry Adams unfolds a poignant personal drama that provides new insights into two of the greatest artists of the 20th century wh...

 Author Roy Morris explains how Samuel Clemens’ six-year journey from Missouri to Hawaii – with lengthy stopovers in Virginia Cit...

Fiction writer and UMKC Cockefair Chair Writer-in-Residence Margot Livesey will discuss her work in a conversation with Angel...

Leigh Rubin discusses his new book The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes, a collection of the best cartoo...

Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman...

Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill marks the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recov...

Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel The Surrendered, a spellbinding story of how love and war...

A native of the American Midwest, Juliet Gael presents her novel, a mix of fact and fiction that captures the passions, hopes, d...

One of the leading Chicano writers in the country with 14 published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and poetry,...

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen discusses her book, Every Last One...