Candice Millard

Candice Millard, an acclaimed and award-winning writer of narrative nonfiction, discusses her four New York Times best selling books, stories of courage and determination, ambition and envy, genius and desperation, triumph and regret. She explains the elements of effective storytelling, details her writing process, and shares stories from her own, often-harrowing research trips.

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon, embarking on an expedition that would not only force him and his men to face disease, drowning, and a murder within their ranks, but would bring Roosevelt to the brink of suicide.

On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was shot by a madman in a train station in Washington, D.C., setting off a cascade of events that would leave his country forever transformed. In her critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling book, Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard reveals the extraordinary life and tragic death of a man who, had he lived, would have been one of our greatest presidents.

When he was only twenty five years old, Winston Churchill escaped from a POW camp during the Boer War. By himself, without a weapon, food, or even a map, he crossed nearly three hundred miles of enemy territory. Hero of the Empire not only tells this epic story of courage, resilience, and determination, but it illuminates the lessons Churchill learned in South Africa that, forty years later, would profoundly affect twentieth century history.

In 1856, the explorers Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, and Sidi Mubarak Bombay set out to find the source of the storied Nile River, and, in so doing, answer one of the greatest riddles in the history of exploration. Together, they would endure brutal diseases, near starvation, and constant setbacks. With Bombay, who had already survived twenty years of enslavement in India, Burton and Speke would solve the ages-old mystery, but they would also develop a rivalry so bitter that, in the end, it would destroy them both.