The Buzz...About Books

Sources suggest that the wedding between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West is scheduled for May 24, 2014 in the chateâu de Versailles or possibly Florence, Italy or both.

Best of luck to those crazy kids.

No one on the Book Buzz blog staff is invited to the wedding–wherever it is happening–so we've put together a list of books about other famous couples.

A Dangerous Liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Carole Seymour-Jones
They rejected society's standards for relationships and never married, but their 50 year relationship was nevertheless a powerful and creative partnership.

Eleanor and Franklin: an Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
The future US president and human rights activist married in 1905 and despite his affairs and her lack of interest in a conventional marriage, they had six children and remained together until his death in 1945.

Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz by Peter-Cornell Richter
Artist O'Keeffe and photography Stieglitz met in 1916 after he had been sent some of her drawings. Although he was 23 years older and married, they fell in love and moved in together in 1918. He photographed her over 350 times during their relationship which lasted until his death in 1946.

Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook
Poets Plath and Hughes were married in 1956 until her suicide in 1963. Although Plath's supporters often blamed him for her death, he was reportedly devastated. Middlebrook describes the impact of Plath's death on Hughes' career.

Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: a Marriage by Kendall Taylor
Zelda Sayre met Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance but was unimpressed by his limited financial prospects. He was instantly infatuated and determined to show her he could support her, he wrote his first novel This Side of Paradise. The relationship was a tumultuous one and ended with his death in 1940.