Alice Sebold's first published book was a memoir of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman. Titled Lucky because one of the policemen told her that she was lucky to be alive--not long before Sebold's attack, another young woman had been killed...

Two Lucky People: Memoirs By Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. vi, 660. $35.00 cloth. When interviewing student candidates for prestigious national scholarships, my favorite question runs something like: "If you had unlimited funds for...

CAROL CHANNING. Simon & Schuster, $26 (272p) ISBN 0-7432-1606-7 Broadway's original Lorelei Lee and Dolly Levi recounts her charmed life, making her success sound like the perfectly normal outcome for a nearly six-foot-tall girl who used to deliver the Christian Science Monitor...

Lucky You Running time 124 minutes Directed by Curtis Hanson Written by Eric Roth Starring Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana Curtis Hanson’s Lucky You, from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Mr. Hanson, based on a story by Mr. Roth, may have been intended to cash...

Dow 13,000: We don't talk much about stocks here, but so much is being made of the latest milestone that we feel remiss. Then again, we don't feel much different than we did when the Dow made a new all-time high.That was last Oct. 3...

In the following review, Oates calls Lucky an “exemplary memoir,” asserting that the memoir is original and direct.