Most Popular Books by MARCIA DAVENPORT

Tells the story of four generations of the Scott family--owners and operators of a Pittsburgh iron and steel works--from 1873 through Pearl Harbor.

A novel of New York city life, with a mixture of nationalities, tenement dwellers, cafe society, and the aristocracy, after World War II.

The life story of Lena Geyer, as seen through the eyes of the little group of men and women who knew and loved her best is, primarily, the magnificent and moving narrative of a beautiful and indomitable woman''s ceaseless quest for perfection in her art - a quest that leads from a povery-stricken home in Bohemia through defeat, tragedy, and abnegation to ultimate triumph in the great cities of the Old and New worlds. Here is the full-length portrait, completely realized, of a great woman who held her genius sacred and would sacrifice even the hot-blooded love of her youth on its altar.

I always meant to be a writer from my earliest recall, writes Marcia Davenport in her memoir, Too Strong For Fantasy, and like all such people I lived from infancy in the world of stories and books, most of them fantasy. When I began to outgrow fantasy, history seized me by the throat and has held on ever since. History is inseparable from place and politics and political men.

His biography including an explanation of the movement for a free and united Italy.