Readers young and old have embraced Barbara Cooney's "Miss Rumphius," about the lupine lady who made the world more beautiful, since its publication four decades ago. "Harry & Hilda: Letters Home" is the story of the "real" Miss Rumphius, a headstrong English girl who comes to America to live with her stern and brilliant uncle, Smith College philosophy professor Harry Norman Gardiner. Set primarily in Bristol, England, South Bristol, Maine, and Northampton, Massachusetts, the book chronicles more than a century of life on both sides of the Atlantic--from two world wars and Hemingway's Paris to the start of the space age. Based on the wealth of written words they left behind, "Harry & Hilda: Letters Home" brings to light the remarkable lives and times of two unforgettable immigrant Americans.