Kate Millet's ground-breaking book, "Sexual Politics", helped shape the dialogue of the women's movement during the 1970s. While she has faded from the front lines, her legacy continues to resonate today. Sexual Politics originated as her Ph.D. dissertation, which was awarded by Columbia Universi

Feminist, Political

Junot Díaz s a Dominican-American writer. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in 2008.

Layered, Political

Eliot's most famous work, Middlemarch, is a turning point in the history of the novel. Making masterful use of a counterpointed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832. The main characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydg

Political, Psychological, Sophisticated, Victorian

Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929, Massie spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in Westchester County, New York in the village of Irvington. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University on his Rhodes Scholarship.

Military history, Political, Power