Biography/Sports 'An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk.' —Chicago Tribune 'Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this...

After being raped and seeing her grandmother killed, a Serbian high-school basketball player named Irina Zaric is recruited as a sniper during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. Ambivalent at first about possibly killing innocent people,...

The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds, Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing–as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport.The may...

I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we? Scott Simon sat beside his once gorgeous and vivacious mother, holding her hand, comforting her, and reminiscing about ...