Jessica Mitford, the muckraking reporter who lambasted the hypocrisy of the funeral industry, died in 1996. A cultural luminary in the Bay Area, she was known for her outspokenness and humor. Now, ...

Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The ...

I remember an occasion in San Francisco, years ago, when the writer Tillie Olsen invited other women writers of the I remember an occasion in San Francisco, years ago, when the writer Tillie Olsen ...

Attorney Robert Treuhaft, a pivotal figure in the Bay Area civil rights movement since the 1940s, died in New York City yesterday after a brief illness. He was 89. Mr. Treuhaft, husband of the late ...

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Although it is not uncommon for big families to produce a rebel or two along with the chip-off-the-old-block offspring, there are few that can lay claim to as much dissension within the ranks as the ...

Hurst has acquired Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by award-winning author and academic Carla Kaplan, a “riveting new biography of the fifth and most radical of the famous ...

In England, the name Mitford is no doubt associated in most people’s minds with my sister Nancy’s novels and biographies. In America, like it or not (and I am not sure all the Mitfords will like it), ...