20th Century Lives: Readings from Three Biographies

Debra Dean’s Hidden Tapestry: Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One, tells the remarkable true story of Belgian-American artist Jan Yoors— childhood vagabond, wartime resistance fighter, New York bohemian— and the two women who agreed to share his life. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 (Vol. 2) by Zachary Leader examines the second half of acclaimed writer Saul Bellow’s life. David N. Schwartz’s The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age is the definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi.