The Girls in the Picture
The Girls in the Picture Ordinarily, before reading The Girls in The Picture I focus a review of a biographical novel on the lives and times of the characters, most often considering how effectively the author managed to fictionalize known facts and to extrapolate scenes and conversations. While I was reading Melanie Benjamin’s The Girls […]
The Aviator’s Wife
When Anne Morrow, the daughter of well-do-do parents, graduated from Smith College, she immediately married an American icon, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the man who recently had flown solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became “the aviator’s wife,” not just an aviator’s wife, but the aviator’s wife; her husband—“Lucky Lindy”—was idolized throughout the world. Melanie Benjamin’s […]
Alice I Have Been
Can you remember when you first read Alice in Wonderland? Ever wonder about Alice? Or how Mr. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) came to write such a wacky and riotous tale? Alice I Have Been is an intriguing biographical novel of Alice Liddell and begins when Alice Hargreaves, nee Liddell, at age eighty, reflects on her […]
The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created “Alice in Wonderland.” The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, a well-researched biography, is a slower-paced book that nevertheless holds the reader’s attention. At the same time, its author, Jenny Woolf, digs deep to flesh out the real Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge […]
Behave
Behave Creative inspirations bubble from diverse places, but recently I’ve discovered a new authorial font. Many writers seem to be imagining stories of women whose real lives intertwined with an illustrious mate. Sometimes these women were themselves famous, and thus any fictional version of a life must remain true to fact. Anne Morrow Lindberg, in […]