Ann Wroe, Author . Random $35 (624p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6033-7
Many readers who know the English War of the Roses through the plays of Shakespeare will be interested in the coda Wroe offers to that history: several years into the reign of Henry VII, a young man called Perkin Warbeck claimed to be one of the...
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Ann Wroe, Author Random House (NY) $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-375-50305-4
Wroe takes current trends in the genre of biography one step further in this eloquent yet frustrating book, offering a reconstructed life of the Roman official who, by ordering the execution of Jesus of Nazareth but otherwise serving with little...
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Ann Wroe, Author Hill & Wang $22 (243p) ISBN 978-0-8090-4595-2
Utilizing primary sources and skillful interpretation, Wroe, the American editor for the Economist, brings to life the medieval French town of Rodez in this engrossing cultural history that takes place during the Hundred Years War. Located in...
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Ann Wroe. Overlook, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59020-778-9
Western icon and poets’ poet, Orpheus is so mutable that, like many figures of ancient religious traditions, it’s difficult to tell where reality leaves off and myth begins. Wroe (Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself), a writer and editor...
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Ann Wroe. Thomas Nelson, $19.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4003-4793-3
Wroe (Six Facets of Light) draws on her life and her career as obituaries editor for the Economist in this freewheeling exploration of “the unique and essential part of ourselves” most synonymous with the soul and the challenges of capturing it on...
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