


Books in series

Madame Picasso
2014

The Bridal Chair
2015

The Joyce Girl
2016

Saving Kandinsky
2014

Mademoiselle Coco und der Duft der Liebe
2018

Die Muse von Wien
2018

Die Dame in Gold
2017

Marlene
2016

Madame Piaf und das Lied der Liebe
2019

Die Malerin des Nordlichts
2019

Frida e as cores da vida
2019

Die Diva
Maria Callas
2020

La decisión de Grace Kelly
2020

Die Tochter des Zauberers - Erika Mann und ihre Flucht ins Leben
Roman
2020

Miss Guggenheim
2020

Romy und der Weg nach Paris
2021

Die Frau von Montparnasse
Simone de Beauvoir und die Suche nach Liebe und Wahrheit
2021

Dora Maar und die zwei Gesichter der Liebe
Picasso ist ihr Leben, die Kunst ihre Leidenschaft
2021

Nico - Die Sängerin der Nacht
2021

Die Künstlerin der Frauen
2021

Marilyn Monroe y las estrellas de Hollywood
2022

Eu sou a Frida
2023

Astrid Lindgren
2022

Die Couturière
Elsa Schiaparelli und die Kunst der Mode (Mutige Frauen zwischen Kunst und Liebe 25)
2023

Queen of Fashion
Für ihre Mode wird Vivienne Westwood gefeiert, doch sie will die Welt verändern (Mutige Frauen zwischen Kunst und Liebe 26)
2023
Authors

Mary “Peetie” Basson serves as a Docent at the Milwaukee Art Museum that houses the largest collection of paintings by Gabriele Münter in North America. A gift of Mrs. Harry L. Bradley, the fourteen paintings by Münter form a cornerstone of the museum’s German Expressionist collection. Immersed in researching the book, Basson learned to her horror that the Lenbachhaus, the museum to which Münter donated her trove of preserved Blue Rider works, was about to be closed for three years. Unwilling to miss seeing the artist’s hand at work in the museum installation, within hours, Basson had bought a plane ticket to Munich. In room after room at the Lenbachhaus, Basson encountered the splendors of the Blue Riders whose emotional depth and intellectual energy drew her to Münter in the first place. And luckily for her, at that very moment, a major retrospective of Kandinsky was being held just across the street, a retrospective that would later go on to show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Guggenheim in New York City. From Munich, Basson traveled to Murnau to see Münter’s “yellow house” in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. That house has been restored and opened to the public as a reminder of the courage of the artist and a representation of a brilliant moment in German art history. For 39 years Peetie Basson taught Upper School English and served as an administrator at the University School of Milwaukee. She and her husband, Steve Basson, raised three sons on Milwaukee’s East Side. They now split their time between their Milwaukee home and their newly acquired pied-a-terre in Brooklyn, New York.



Lena Johannson wurde 1967 in Reinbek bei Hamburg geboren. Nach der Schulzeit auf dem Gymnasium machte sie zunächst eine Ausbildung zur Buchhändlerin, bevor sie sich der Tourismusbranche zuwandte. Ihre beiden Leidenschaften Schreiben und Reisen konnte sie später in ihrem Beruf als Reisejournalistin miteinander verbinden. Vor einiger Zeit erfüllte sich Lena Johannson einen Traum und zog an die Ostsee. Schreibt auch unter dem Pseudonym Hanna Riis.
Gloria Goldreich graduated from Brandeis University and did graduate work in Jewish history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a coordinator in the Department of Jewish Education at National Hadassah and served as Public Relations Director of the Baruch College of the City University of New York. While still an undergraduate at Brandeis, she was a winner of the Seventeen magazine short story contest where her first nationally published work appeared. Subsequently, her short fiction and critical essays have appeared in Commentary, McCalls, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, Ms., Chatelaine, Hadassah Magazine and numerous other magazines and journals. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated. She is the author of a series of children's books on women in the professions entitled What Can She Be? She has also written novels for young adults, Ten Traditional Jewish Stories, and she edited a prize-winning anthology A Treasury of Jewish Literature. Her novel, Leah's Journey won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 1979, and her second novel Four Days won the Federation Arts and Letters Award. Her other novels include Promised Land, This Burning Harvest, Leah's Children, West to Eden, Mothers, Years of Dreams and That Year of Our War. Her books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild and the Troll Book Club. She has lectured throughout the United States and in Canada. Gloria Goldreich is married to an attorney and is the mother of two daughters and a son, and the grandmother of six grandchildren. Harlequin

Bestselling author C.W. Gortner holds an MFA in Writing, with an emphasis in Renaissance Studies. Raised in Spain and half Spanish by birth, he currently lives in Northern California. His books have been translated in over 20 languages to date. He welcomes readers and is always available for reader group chats. Please visit him at www.cwgortner.com for more information.

Annabel Abbs is an English writer and novelist. Her first novel, The Joyce Girl, was published in 2016 and tells a fictionalised story of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce. It won the Impress Prize for New Writers, the Spotlight First Novel Award, was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the Caledonia Novel Award and the Waverton Good Read Award. The Joyce Girl was a Reader Pick in The Guardian 2016 and was one of ten books selected for presentation at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, where it was given Five Stars by the Hollywood Reporter.