Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer’s career in our literature has been at once so brilliant, varied, controversial, public, and prolific and misunderstood.

More than an actor (and Academy-Award winner), Sidney Poitier is an artist, a writer and director, a thinker and critic, a humanitarian and diplomat.

More than an actor (and Academy-Award winner), Sidney Poitier is an artist, a writer and director, a thinker and critic, a humanitarian and diplomat.

More than an actor (and Academy-Award winner), Sidney Poitier is an artist, a writer and director, a thinker and critic, a humanitarian and diplomat.

He was brilliant and prolific, breathing life and passion into memorable characters, and like them, he was troubled and self-destructive.