Author and screenwriter Suzanne Stroh hails from Michigan, where her family brewed Stroh’s beer for five generations. A mountaineer and field medic, she lives with her family in the Virginia countryside.
“My daughter is reading Homer’s Odyssey. Last night she asked, ‘What’s your Ithaca?’ I thought of myself at her age. Young writers quest for immortality. Wise ones do eBooks.”
April 30, 1909: a daughter of France was coming over. Miss Barney gathered the plover's eggs and put the Château Yquem on ice, betting on another comet year.
April 23 is the birthday of the Modernist author, sculptor and music patron Élisabeth de Gramont. More than 500 passionate letters exist between Élisabeth and her lifelong lover and "eternal mate," Natalie Barney. Nobody's read them in English. Till now.