In the bestselling tradition of The Where, the Why, and the How , this offbeat illustrated history reveals 65 people you've probably never heard of, but who helped shape the word as we know it. Muses and neighbors, friends and relatives, accomplices and benefactors--such as Michael and Joy Brown, who gifted Harper Lee a year's worth of wages to help her write To Kill a Mockingbird . Or John Ordway, the colleague who walked with Lewis and Clark every...