Description
Description: Meet the authors featured in the historical fiction panel on November 30th and learn some of the award-winning novels that focus on the dazzling jazz era of the 1920s. The main characters of these novels bring a strong and advancing approach to the time in order to show that a woman’s search for independence has transcended all eras.
Cost: FREE
Format: You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Nov 30, 2022 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Eileen Joyce Donovan
Author of A Lady Newspaperman’s Dilemma
Synopsis: First, we will turn the pages back to1926, in A Lady Newspaperman’s Dilemma. A world of flappers, speakeasies, and bathtub gin. Alex, a cocky college graduate starts her journalism career at a small Montana newspaper. On her first day, a courthouse shootout thrusts her into the lead reporter’s role, and into the path of the town’s most eligible, and handsome, cattle rancher. That spring, an ice jam on the Yellowstone River, floods the town. Only US Army bombs can save it. Alex’s reporting draws national attention and a career dilemma So, she’s faced with a choice. Her dream job or her dream man. Definitely A Lady Newspaperman’s Dilemma.
About the author: Eileen Joyce Donovan’s debut historical novel won the 2019 Marie M Irvine Award for Literary Excellence. Her latest historical fiction, A Lady Newspaperman’s Dilemma, released in September 2022, won the 2021 When Words Count nationwide competition. She’s also had short stories published in various anthologies as well as non-fiction in Chicken Soup for the Soul. She’s a member of the Historical Novel Society, Women’s National Book Association, Women Fiction Writers Association, and Authors Guild. She lives in Manhattan and enjoys going to concerts and plays, as well as reading books that catch her fancy.
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Kitty Zeldis
Author of The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
Synopsis: Next, same era, 1924, but from a big city many of us will recognize, Brooklyn. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways. Recently arrived from New Orleans, Beatrice is working to establish a chic new dress shop with help from Alice, the orphaned teenage ward she brought north with her. Down the block, newlywed Catherine is restless in her elegant brownstone, longing for a baby she cannot conceive. When Bea befriends Catherine and the two start to become close, Alice feels abandoned and envious, and runs away to Manhattan.
Her departure sets into motion a series of events that will force each woman to confront the painful secrets of her past in order to move into the happier future she seeks. Moving from the bustling streets of early twentieth century New York City to late nineteenth-century Russia and the lively quarters of New Orleans in the 1910s, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights is a story of the families we are born into and the families we choose, and of the unbreakable bonds between women.
About the author: Kitty Zeldis is the nom de plume of a Brooklyn-based author of nine novels and over 35 books for children. Her short fiction, essays and articles have been published in many literary and national publications.
Moderator:
Sheila Lewis: Sheila Lewis is a curriculum and children’s writer, writing coach, educator, and tutor. She teaches meditation and related classes and leads a children’s book club at the JCC in Manhattan. Recently, Sheila co-authored a summer learning program for the national Boys & Girls Clubs of America and is now developing more book club material for after schools. Sheila joined WNBA-NYC over six years ago and worked on many early panels.
