Would a meeting of your book group be enchanced by talking to the author of the book you all have read? I have spoken to book groups about all the books I have written, a time that has certainly helped to energize me as a writer. Readers have been able to find out more about the stories behind my books, the research and writing process, and to share their own experiences. Discussion questions are also available on request. Here are more thoughts about which book might fit your group's interests.
After writing a novel about the relationship between Emily Hale and T. S. Eliot, I decided I had to be present when the 1,131 letters that Eliot wrote Hale were opened at Princeton University Library in 2020 after a 50-year embargo. My experience that day led to a decision to write a traditional biography of Hale, seeking to correct mistakes that many commentators made and the story Eliot himself provided late in his life. For book groups, I can reflect on this book, or the process of writing bo
Learn more about how I discovered the hidden story of Emily Hale and my experience at Princeton University Library when the 1,131 letters that the poet T. S. Eliot wrote her were finally opened. I can share photos of Hale and the places she lived and worked, and also describe the new things I learned about her after my novel was published.
If you attended college in the 1960s or 1970s, this book will provide the basis for a lively discussion. It tracks the discrimination that women endured on American campuses during those years, and how a fe of them developed a strategy to fight back. The book chronicles one of the most visible complaints that was filed in 1970, the one against my alma mater, the University of Michigan. I covered the story as a student journalist, and it was an episode that inspired me as I pursued my own career
Elly Peterson was a moderate Republican leader and a key figure in the battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. This book provides the basis for a discussion of how the role of women in politics has evolved over the past half century--and the nature of politics itself. Learn how I got to know Peterson and was inspired to write her story.
I attended college in the early 1970s, when the field of women's history was just developing. Learn how that experience inspired me to tell the stories of the women in all of my books, women who might otherwise have been lost to history.
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