Jenny had a guardian angel, and that angel’s name was Forrest Gump. Her angel was kind to her, and always there for her when she needed...

The dancer claimed she was Javanese and Hindu, and came to be known under the name Mata Hari, which means ‘eye of the day’ in the Malay...

Today the town of Bernay, Normandy, lay under an ill-tempered sky, and yet little Edith was on cloud nine. Her father, a street performer...

“I am your creator,” Steven Spielberg repeated to the extra-terrestrial. “I created you, and now you are a friend to millions of children...

Once upon a time in North Carolina, a girl named Eunice Kathleen Waymon was born, and one day they would come to call her Nina Simone....

Writing in the late 19th century, years before the Lapin Agile had opened on the Rue Norvins, a journalist would write the following...

Syracuse was a Sicilian city, invaded, colonized, built and rebuilt over the course of history. It was the Phoenicians who first set up a...

Here in New York, on the island of Manhattan, every man, woman and child knew Mulberry Street. In the midst of the day this long street...

Tonight, the crowd was buzzing outside the Mocambo. The women were a step ahead of the sixties in their flared jeans, Brigitte-Bardot...

Deep down in the sugar cane plantations, a cluster of around fifty or so wooden shacks with sheet metal roofs made up the immigrant...

Anita was the best reader in her class. In their little Mississippi school for black children, the students were learning to read with...

Alfonso Pacchiano and his wife, Antonella, had decided to leave the misery, the unemployment and corruption of Trieste behind them and...

Nobody wanted this mansion, immense and unmistakeably colonial as it was. The cotton fields were gone, deserted long ago, and in the...

Up in the Hollywood hills, the van slowed to a crawl. On the sidewalk, a young woman was walking at a frantic pace, catching the driver’s...

The grand reception hall of the George V hotel was buzzing, its huge crystal chandelier glittering over the wealthy tourists who’d come...

“Dear Mom, I miss our house. I been gone more than a year now, and it feels like it’s been forever. I can’t remember what a bed feels...

Here in the land of Uncle Sam, in the United States of America, they see us as Orthodox Jewish immigrants. Most of the folks who live in...