When mystery novelist Agatha Christie realized her marriage was over, she came up with a disturbing plan to punish her cheating husband.
Martha Gellhorn overcame barriers to become one of the 20th century's most accomplished war correspondent.
The playwright Arthur Miller may have written some of the greatest classics, but scandal and tragedy followed him to the very end.
John of Patmos wrote the Bible's most unusual book after he was exiled by the ancient Romans.
Frederick Douglass failed in his first attempt to escape from slavery , but he refused to give up his quest for freedom.
Some of history's greatest people have been omitted from a lot of the textbooks.
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