San Antonio College Library

"Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920s and continued well into the 1980s, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke. Her status...

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon.com) and "one of the quiet giants ... of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed Break it Down (1986) to the...

In the troubled times before the Civil War, Lydia Maria Child's impassioned antislavery writings attracted more people to the abolition movement than any other published works. Deborah Clifford here paints a vivid portrait of Child and the social milieu in which she worked. In 1825, Child captivated Boston's literary world with her first novel, "Hobomok", which took on the unmentionable subject of a white woman's marriage to an American Indian. Her...