October 16th, 2026
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, published by Random House in June 2025, is the latest book by this best-selling and award-winning author of books on American politics and the media. Tanenhaus is the former editor-in-chief of
The New York Times Book Review, and he has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Cornell as well as at the George W. Bush White House and the Clinton, Kennedy, and Johnson Presidential libraries. His…
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October 9th, 2026
Diamond and Juba: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing is this author’s dual biography of Irish American John Diamond and African American William Henry Lane (nicknamed Juba). Published by the University of Illinois Press in December 2025, this biography explores the lives of these two men who were internationally famous in the 1800s as rival champions in the art and sport of challenge dancing. An American history professor at the State University of New…
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October 2nd, 2026
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the latest book by this distinguished Penn State DuBois professor emeritus and author. Published in March 2025 by the University of Virginia Press, it won the Patrick F. Quinn Award for outstanding monograph, offered by the Poe Society, and was nominated for a 2025 Edgar Award offered by the Mystery Writers of America. Kopley also wrote
The Thread of the Scarlett Letter: A Study in Hawthorne’s Transformation;
Edgar …
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May 8th, 2026
This author’s
Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography was published
by
Catapult Press in October 2025. Kaplan has authored novels and story collections, including
The Edge of Marriage, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories series. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and she was…
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