Charles J Shields

Discusses the history, land, people, economics, government and festivals of Guatemala.

Presents information on the geography, history, economy, and people of Peru. Includes a chronology, recipes, project ideas, and more.

Discusses the land, the history, the economy, the people, and the festivals of Chile.

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Honduras. Includes recipes, related projects, and a calendar of festivals.

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Costa Rica. Includes recipes, related projects, and a calendar of festivals.

Presents information on the geography, history, economy, and people of Central America. Includes a chronology, recipes, project ideas, and more.

Presents information on the geography, history, economy, and people of Uruguay. Includes a chronology, recipes, project ideas, and more.

A biography of a brilliant novelist underappreciated in his own time who became a twenty-first-century bestseller, from the New York Times—bestselling author. When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet the quietly powerful tale of Midwestern college professor William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish, eventually found an admiring audience...

"Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics' Circle Award. Charles J. Shields's authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most admired...