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This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber, whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.

William L. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic experts on the atomic bomb.

Creativity is an attribute that we often think other people have. We applaud it in artists, choreographers, composers, writers, and others, but seem to ignore or downplay it in ourselves. That we do is in some ways a tragedy. Creativity adds a dynamism and an enjoyment to life—a vitality that can be ours without a lot of effort. It may indeed be more readily available the less we force it.