I am happy to have read Beautiful Affliction, by Lene Fogelberg, in the deepest part of a Michigan winter. Winter suggests to many cold,...

Seventy-seven years ago this weekend, my grandparents and my mother spent their first Thanksgiving in America at the home of the family...

Since the debut last spring of my novel Even in Darkness, which is based on the unusual WWII survival story of my great aunt Kläre, I...

From my new Huffington Post Blog Post... A very thoughtful reader left me a message in the discussion section of my author page on Amazon...

I've been eagerly anticipating the release of Meg Waite Clayton’s The Race for Paris, a novel in the same WWII genre of historical...

I had the extraordinary privilege last evening of attending a gala to honor William Clay Ford Jr. with the USC Shoah Foundation’s...

Originally posted at Women Writers, Women's Books Good fiction starts with a good story. Good historical fiction adds a well researched...

Not everyone wants to write a novel, but it seems as if everybody’s got that box full of old photos, bundles of letters, birth...

Author thrill! Loved doing this interview with Cynthia Canty on WUOM. You can catch it here She's a wonderful interviewer and gave me...

A rare and wonderful author thrill.. check out my Huff post blog about an evening spent with NPR's Diane Rehm