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Biography & Personal Papers



link to catalog page JOSLIN, Jane Addams, a Writer's Life Author: Katherine Joslin
Pub Date: January 2009

The story of the literary woman behind the public figure   learn more...

link to catalog page MOISALA, Kaija Saariaho Author: Pirkko Moisala
Pub Date: May 2009

Introducing a bold contemporary composer whose work embraces both technology and traditional structures   learn more...

link to catalog page DIRCK, Lincoln the Lawyer Author: Brian Dirck
Pub Date: January 2009

What the law did to and for Abraham Lincoln, and its important impact on his future presidency   learn more...

link to catalog page HATFIELD, Never Seen the Moon

Never Seen the Moon

The Trials of Edith Maxwell

Author: Sharon Hatfield
Pub Date: 2009

The stranger-than-fiction case of Appalachia's "slipper slayer"   learn more...

link to catalog page FRIEDMAN, A Red Family

A Red Family

Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales

Author: Mickey Friedman
Pub Date: February 2009

The searing memoir of an American communist family   learn more...

link to catalog page KERNS, Scenes from the High Desert

Scenes from the High Desert

Julian Steward's Life and Theory

Author: Virginia Kerns
Pub Date: January 2009

A thorough analysis of Julian Steward’s life and work and the history of the discipline of anthropology during his lifetime   learn more...

link to catalog page ADDAMS, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness, 1881-88

Author: Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury
Pub Date: January 2009

Documenting a transitional period in the life of the preeminent American social activist and writer   learn more...

link to catalog page WALSH, The Shadows Rise

The Shadows Rise

Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend

Author: John Evangelist Walsh
Pub Date: January 2009

Unraveling the fabled romance between Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge   learn more...

link to catalog page TOBIAS, Strange Haven

Strange Haven

A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai

Author: Sigmund Tobias
Pub Date: February 2009

A poignant memoir of Jewish refugees living in Shanghai during World War II   learn more...

link to catalog page JAN, Unbound Spirit

Unbound Spirit

Letters of Flora Belle Jan

Author: Flora Belle Jan
Pub Date: January 2009

The inner life of a sensitive and ambitious woman--an exceptional Chinese American flapper, writer, and journalist   learn more...

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