The letters not only chronicle the idiosyncrasies of the twentieth century, but chart the stormy relationship between six uniquely gifted women.

"You must be a man uniquely gifted with persuasiveness, Landen," Cavan said.

Man, they said, was essentially an animal, though uniquely gifted.

'He wasn't uniquely gifted, he was just better than anyone else in my view.'

A master composer, arranger and uniquely gifted trombone player, Hampton's career is among the most distinguished in jazz.

On his death, he was described as a "uniquely gifted craftsman and valuable public servant", who in his field "had no rival anywhere".

Calhoun "was a public intellectual of the highest order...and a uniquely gifted American politician."

"Elvis" pares the myth back to reality: a uniquely gifted performer and his music.

Both were uniquely gifted in their understanding of their art form, and their frustrations at home was poured into their studies.

He writes that behind this idea is the notion that human beings are in some way uniquely gifted, perhaps with a share in the divine.