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In 1989, Amy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was published to great commercial and critical success. With the blockbuster film adaption that followed as well as additional novels, a libretto,...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a rock star of the early 80s art scene: he lived fast, died young and created thousands of drawings and paintings. It took less than a decade to go from anonymous graffiti...

Much has been recounted and dramatized of how Helen Keller overcame the blindness and deafness that struck her in infancy to achieve a childhood education. The accomplishments from the balance of her...

Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in with his intimate, laid-back voice and innate...

Explore the history of the American South and it's music through the life of country star Charley Pride. Raised in the brutally segregated Mississippi Delta, Pride's buttery voice, talent, and steely...

American Masters: Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk Of DVD

Though literary fame and fortune evaded him during his brief, troubled life, poet and author Edgar Allan Poe has gone on to achieve legendary status, single-handedly inventing the detective story...

Explore the life and work of author Flannery O Connor, whose distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. Winner of the first ever Library of Congress...

Dick Cavett was a "Tonight Show" staff writer in 1961 when he first met Groucho Marx-and as the decade progressed, the comedy legend would be a cherished mentor and friend as Cavett made the...

How It Feels to Be Free takes an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and tells the story of how six trailblazing performers Lena...

International art sensation Keith Haring blazed a trail through the legendary art scene of 1980s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. Harings message targeted the...

The children's literature she based on her own peripatetic family life as a girl and young woman across the late-19th-century American West has become an enduring part of the national fabric. This...