“Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes sometimes greater than illustrious heroes.” Twenty years ago, as an assistant professor at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ, the words of Marius in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables resonated in my mind...



We are always looking for manuscripts about true-life heroes. If you hear of one or have one, we welcome unsolicited manuscripts.
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