The definitive story of Hollywood's most famous couple He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance—often called "the marriage of the cen...(展开全部)

He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman. She was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance—often called "the marriage of the century"—was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 托马斯·特拉维萨诺（Thomas Travisano），“伊丽莎白·毕肖普学会”创始主席，现为哈特威克学院英语系名誉教授。著有《伊丽莎白·毕肖普：艺术历程》和《20世纪中叶四重奏：毕肖普、洛威尔、贾雷尔与贝里曼》，编辑《空中的言辞：伊丽莎白·毕肖普与罗伯特·洛威尔通信全集》《21世纪的伊丽莎白·毕肖普》以及三卷本《美国新诗选》（合编），专著《未知的爱：伊丽莎白·毕肖普传》获得古根海姆奖金、美国国家人文基金会奖金以及美国哲学学会的支持。 【译者简介】 杨东伟，译者，诗歌研究者，译有《十扇窗：伟大的诗歌如何改变世界》《未知的爱：伊丽莎白·毕肖普传》《最后的凝望，最后的诗章》（即出）。

提摩太•凯勒（Timothy Keller），美国神学家、护教学家，纽约救赎主长老教会牧师。 其著作《为何是他》和《一掷千金的上帝》荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。其他作品包括《中心教会》、《诸神的面具》、《慷慨的正义》等。凯茜·凯勒（Kathy Keller），凯勒妻子，毕业于戈登-康威尔神学院。

“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start. . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding. . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the...(展开全部)

罗伯特•休斯（Robert Hughes，1938－2012） 澳大利亚人，当代著名艺术评论家、作家、历史学家。他曾任美国《时代》周刊的首席艺术评论员，并为该刊撰写艺术评论长达三十年之久。在当代艺术运动不被认可的岁月里，他化身成为了传统主义的鞭笞者和一名艺术斗士。曾著有《绝对批评》、《致命的海滩》等。 译者简介 欧阳昱，男，1955年出生于湖北。作家、诗人、翻译家。

Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century's finest and most beloved American poets has eluded readers for years. In this first full biography, Brett Miller pieces together the compelling and painful story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her brilliantly crafted poems.

Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states. All the while he enjoyed a successful career as composer, as conductor of international stature, as organizer for the rights of composers,...(展开全部)

Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states. All the while he enjoyed a successful career as composer, as conductor of international stature, as organizer for the rights of composers,...(展开全部)

From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science" (The New York Times). 16 pages of photos.