In 1904, having known each other for only three months, a young woman named Nora Barnacle and a not yet famous writer named James Joyce left Ireland together for Europe -- unwed. So began a deep and c
In March 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King's College London announced the departure of his obstructive colleague, Rosalind Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist, Francis Crick.But it was too la
Ernest Jones embraced the embryonic science of psychoanalysis along with its primary parent, Freud, and the relentlessly competitive and contentious people around him. The early practitioners fought e
A personal look at a controversial literary figure examines his views on women, marriage, and sexuality, challenging current beliefs about his racism, adultery, repressed homosexuality, and his odd bu
William Butter Yeats, who some critics feel was the greatest English language poet of our century, led a life of many contradictions. He was Ireland's most revered writer and won the Nobel Prize for L
A rich and exuberant group biography of the early geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history.The birth of geology was fostered initially by gentl
