Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local author Candice Millard had been down the road to Hollywood before, with would-be producers buying options on her bestselling ...

The quest to find the headwaters of the Nile River was the mid-19th century's equivalent to the space race. In her new nonfiction book, River of God, Candice Millard follows the story of two bitter ...

Local author Candice Millard has written her fourth book, “River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile.” Her first three were New York Times bestsellers.

Candice Millard says that she doesn’t write “full biographies” of historical figures; rather, she delves into “moments of time that are powerful and illuminating” about that person. Millard, who ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. “River of the Gods” is a fast-paced tale of the absurdly dangerous quest by two friends turned enemies to solve the geographic riddle ...

Candice Millard has developed a distinctive approach to writing about historical giants. She focuses tightly on a forgotten yet riveting episode in an extremely well-documented life. Her first book, ...

At more than 4,100 miles long, the Nile River (the river and its delta appear in green above) is now known to have several sources. Candice Millard's fourth book took her to England and Africa as she ...

James A. Garfield could have been so much more than a footnote, said Fergus M. Bordewich in The Wall Street Journal. Elected president in 1880, this “remarkably humble and intellectually gifted” son ...

At some point in the late 1990s a friend sent me a copy of William Manchester’s The Last Lion. A biography of Winston Churchill, it read like a fiction novel so remarkable was the man. Detail after ...

Local author Candice Millard had been down the road to Hollywood before, with would-be producers buying options on her bestselling nonfiction books. “I know a lot of these things look exciting and ...

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