Drama

Remember Perry Mason, the attorney who always got a conviction, played by Raymond Burr.  The black and white television series ran from 1957 until 1966 and covered 270 episodes.  They were based on the who dunnit books written by Erle Stanley Gardner. The television production usually started with the scene of a murder, and generally finished with... [Read more of this review]

Of her career and upbringing, Burns once said, “It has been said that growing up in the South and becoming a writer is like spending your life riding in a wagon, seated in a chair that is always facing backwards. I don’t face life looking backwards, but I have written about past times and past people.” [Read more of this review]  Read More →

William Shakespeare The most influential writer in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a -successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582 he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with... [Read more of this review]