The Nobel Prize committee said the book provides one of the best descriptions of small town life ever written.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Today we tell about the life and work of one of America's greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

If I can be the one to save it from that danger, then my health and life are not important."

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Clara Barton started her life as a nurse during the early days of the Civil War in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But as one doctor advises her patients, becoming a non-smoker is one way to gain control of your life.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is considered one of the best books about an American boy's life in the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

One of her first jobs for the magazine was a series of stories about the life of the French Emperor Napoleon.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The puppeteers train for many years to move as one in bringing the puppet to life to act in complex theater productions.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Today we continue our report about the life and music of one of America's greatest composers, George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Director Kevin MacDonald wanted to make a documentary that shows one day in the life of the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

Her life was full of adventure. She was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

One of the Russians,Anna Chapman, captured attention with her looks and stories of her New York party life.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

People think that once you get infected one time you develop immunity for the rest of your life.

VOA: special.2011.04.20

To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life.

VOA: special.2009.10.31