Presents an overview of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, explaining the genius of his political savvy, and describes the context in which he assigned a cadre of his fiercest rivals as his closest cabinet advisors.

A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994.

Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets of Christiana (now Oslo), struggling on the edge of starvation while trying to sell his articles to the local newspaper.

Galton founded the science of Eugenics and coined the word in 1883. He investigated the families of great men and thought genius was hereditary.

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD AND THE NEBULA AWARD The classic novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning movie Charly Daniel Keyes, the author of eight books, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from ...

Provocative and ...persuasive...{Pletsch} has illuminated the process by which a gifted but awkward philology student became one of the modern world's most original thinkers.

Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920.

Luzhin is a coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius.

"A myth of genius has been our way of making good the losses our romantic modernity entails," Taylor writes.