Georgia O'Keeffe (6)
Louise Nevelson (1)
Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
The best selling biography of one of America's most admired and accomplished painters
Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
The first biography of this extraordinary and enigmatic American sculptor
Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
A book that offers people without children the life-affirming story of themselves
Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life
A modern pastoral about transforming a bare backyard into a mature garden
Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own
The vivid story of a wonderful way to educate teenage girls from America and around the world
Laurie Lisle writes about the lives of American women, including her own.
Jottings
Help a Free Press Stay Strong
Tags: Journalism, writing
The freedom of the press is so important in a democracy that it's mentioned in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Journalists, who gather the facts and publish what they find, keep politicians on their toes and enable whistle blowers to tell us what's going on. This will be more essential than ever during the Presidency of Donald Trump.
"We need the principled press to hold power to account," said Meryl Streep recently. No doubt her remarks were reactions to Trump's ongoing disparagement of the media, especially when it's critical of him.
Every one of us can help the press stay strong and independent by paying for online subscriptions instead of reading digital news stories for free. So subscribe soon to the best of the best, like The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as your local newspaper.
There's no time to waste because the digital revolution has devastated print advertising, making readers like you more important than ever to newspapers' bottom lines. Read More
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