Anyone who has embarked on a search for their ancestors knows the feeling of just wanting more — more knowledge, more insight, more proof of lives lived. Who were these long-gone people, beyond a ...

My cousin Janet Perkins, a preternaturally youthful and glamorous member of that little-red-glasses brigade recently satirized on “Saturday Night Live” — elderly middle-aged women who project boldness ...

In this intricate, sumptuously written account, Pulitzer winner Lewis (W.E.B. Du Bois) offers a unique version of the American rags-to-riches story that shows how Black strivers had to navigate the ...

In the opening pages of his fascinating and important new book, historian David Levering Lewis sits in an Atlanta church beneath a stained-glass window that depicts his maternal grandmother as the ...

Over a video chat, David Levering Lewis is sharing the story about how he found the muse for his latest book inside one of Atlanta’s oldest churches. Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University ...

Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis' two-volume work on the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever-audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ ...

Condensed and updated ed. of: 2 vol. set, originally published 1993-2000. NMAF copy 39088019777622 Gift from the Collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. The two time Pulitzer Prize winning biography of W E ...

NEW YORK — Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever-audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two-volume ...