By bestselling biographer and journalist, a selective collection that illustrates his passage from school to journalist to illustrious biographer.

Dotson has been crisscrossing the country for more than forty years--logging more than four million miles—in search of people who have quietly but profoundly changed our lives and our country for the better. Now, in American Story, ...

Sylvia Plath is widely regarded as one of the most influential American authors of the twentieth century. Her frank, confessional style of writing, combined with her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes and her tragic suicide at age thi...