Melanie Benjamin, Author . Delacorte $25 (351p) ISBN 978-0-385-34413-5
Benjamin draws on one of the most enduring relationships in children’s literature in her excellent debut, spinning out the heartbreaking story of Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
. Her research into the lives of Charles...
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Melanie Benjamin. Delacorte, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-34415-9
Mercy Lavinia "Vinnie" Warren Bump, the diminutive wife of Gen. Tom Thumb, narrates her life story in this vivacious fictionalized autobiography that takes her from a small New England town to a seedy Mississippi showboat and eventually into the...
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Melanie Benjamin. Delacorte, $26 (402p) ISBN 978-0-345-52867-4
Talented historical novelist Benjamin has a knack for picking intriguing, if somewhat obscure, women in history and making them utterly unforgettable. Told from the perspective of Anne Lindbergh, wife of the famed aviator Charles, her third novel (af
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Melanie Benjamin. Delacorte, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-52869-8
In 1975, a clique of Manhattan socialites discover that literary lion Truman Capote revealed their dirtiest laundry to the world in a story published to great fanfare in Esquire—a real-life event that inspires this novel. As the women (the...
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Melanie Benjamin, Author, Samantha Eggar, Read by , read by Samantha Eggar. Random House Audio $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-3077-1344-5
Samantha Eggar is a consummate actor, and the character of Alice Liddell Hargreaves, from girlhood into old age, is a great vehicle for her talents. The three young Liddell sisters who dominate the first half of the book are easily distinguished and
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Melanie Benjamin. Delacorte, $28 (422p) ISBN 978-1-101-88680-9
Benjamin (The Swans of Fifth Avenue) escorts readers through the rise and fall of Hollywood’s silent film era by following a friendship and creative collaboration that helped birth the earliest movies: the fruitful, testy bond between the “scenarist”
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Melanie Benjamin. Delacorte, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-18224-2
This impeccably researched, lyrically told historical about a brash American woman and her French husband during WWII is a remarkable achievement. Blanche Ross Auzello doesn’t care for being a proper, quiet wife, much to the dismay of her somewhat...
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Melanie Benjamin. Delacorte, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-18228-0
Benjamin (Mistress of the Ritz) revisits the Children’s Blizzard that killed 235 people in January 1888 in this sprawling, well-told story. As the children from two Great Plains schools prepare to leave at the end of an unusually mild winter day,...
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Melanie Benjamin. Delacorte, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-49785-2
Benjamin (The Children’s Blizzard) sets this attuned if cluttered story of a frustrated woman and her striving daughters against the backdrop of California’s emerging surfing scene. Carol Donnelly, a onetime prospect for the Olympic swim team,...
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