Wendy Smith, Author . Hyperion $14.99 (345p) ISBN 978-1-4013-2340-0
Inspired by the generosity of everyday Americans in the aftermath of 2004's tsunami, Smith, a longtime fund-raiser for nonprofits, winnows through the “muddle of hyperbolic language found in fund-raising letters” to explain how even
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Wendy Smith, Author Carolrhoda Books $15.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-87614-371-1
A mouse named Thelonius is so excited by the news that he is about to become a brother that he sits down to knit. He only has enough yarn for one ``jumper'' (a sweater, to American readers) but his spirits cannot be dampened, not even when he is...
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Wendy Smith, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (482p) ISBN 978-0-394-57445-5
Widely considered America's finest acting ensemble during the 1930s, the Group Theatre, with its self-defined mission to reconnect theater to the world of ideas and actions, staged plays that confronted social and moral issues. Brought strikingly to
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Wendy Smith, Author Grove Press $14.95 (482p) ISBN 978-0-8021-3300-7
In a prodigiously researched, definitive study that received a boxed review in hardcover and was among PW 's Best Books of 1990, Smith explores how Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and other members of the Group Theatre revolutionized acting as they...
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