As legendary beauties go, few are as legendary or as beautiful as the mythic Helen of Troy, who became the cause of the ...

Helen Ford was born Helen Isabel Barnett in Troy on June 6, 1894. Helen’s father was a manufacturer in Troy, and she was considered a musical prodigy as a child. She studied voice and piano at a ...

A TROJAN ENDING—Laura Riding— Random House ($2.50). Troy’s tale is one of the oldest stories in the world. It has been questioned, sifted, dug into by historians and archeologists, reconstructed by ...

I cut myself shaving right before I met Mary E. Roach. No big deal, but it’s worth mentioning because it’s so on-brand: I lost track of the number of times a character in her “We Are the Match” holds ...