Fascinating detective stories into the connections between names and related subjects.

A historical account of the origins and use of over 800 given names.

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritance Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three g

Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinating in its own right.

History in our day is still a story, and yet one from which we expect to tell the truth - not just the facts, the names and events of the past, but the invisibl