Search results for

Eric Nuzum, author of The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula, toured Transylvania and even drank his own blood in hopes of understanding the fascination with vampires.

The new book Daughters of Men, written by Rachel Vassel, profiles African-American women and their fathers. Dr. Helene Gayle, CEO of the nonprofit organization CARE, joins Vassel in a conversation about the unique relationship between black fathers and their daughters. Gayle is featured in the book.

For two decades, Diana Walker was the White House photographer for Time magazine, clicking her camera through five administrations. Walker's new book is filled with portraits that go far beyond the usual "photo ops."

Actor, director and photographer Leonard Nimoy talks about his new book, The Full Body Project. The book is a collection of nude photographs of very full bodied women. Nimoy speaks with Scott Simon.

Carl Sandburg received one of his two Pulitzer Prizes for a 1950 compilation of his poems. A new collection focuses on the Midwestern poet's early works, what the editor calls Sandburg's "great period."

The story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the tens of thousands of children refugees from the Sudanese civil war, is the basis for Dave Eggers' new novel, What Is the What. Eggers and Deng talk about their collaboration and the traumas the "Lost Boys" endured.

As history marches on, space for memorials on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is shrinking. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which officially begins construction Nov. 13, may perhaps be the last monument to be built on the parcel.

In 1851, two chess masters sat down for a practice game in London. What should have been a throwaway game intensified and was quickly dubbed "the immortal game." David Shenk, author of a new history of chess called The Immortal Game, describes the historic match.

Marie Antoinette has been a subject for both biographers and novelists. Since before her beheading by French revolutionaries, her life has been analyzed and mythologized. Biographer Antonia Fraser and novelist Sena Jeter Naslund Offer a peek at the life of Marie Antoinette.

Writer Alice McDermott won the National Book Award in 1998 for her novel, Charming Billy. McDermott has just brought out a new novel called After This, and our book critic says that it's a stunner.