Hazel Tharsing was born in California in 1888. Intensely shy, she learned to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Counted among the most beautiful women in America, she married a British aristocrat in London, then the twenty-year-old son of her mother’s lover in San Francisco, then a famous artist in New York, and finally America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill, in Paris. This novel about her life is an … [Read more...] about Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Interview with Author – Samantha Wilcoxson
About Samantha Wilcoxson: I live on the wrong side of the pond, so books enable me to get lost in medieval England. During a recent trip to the UK, I was thrilled to stroll through so many places that I had only previously read about. I hope that I can help my own readers step into another time and place, becoming friends with the historical figures that they meet. What inspires you to write? Intriguing characters in history inspire me to write. When I come across a person with just enough … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Samantha Wilcoxson
