Melanie Benjamin: 14 books

Melanie Benjamin introduces readers to the lavish, heady world of her novel The Swans of Fifth Avenue with this exclusive ebook short story! In this enchanting prequel, New York society and Hollywood royalty collide during the doomed and decadent life of Ernest Hemingway.   Spain, 1959. Slim Hawks...

BONUS: This edition contains a timeline, an interview with Melanie Benjamin, and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been. For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era...

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a “rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies” (USA Today)—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford “Full of Old Hollywood glamour and true details about...

Ten bestselling authors inspired by New York City's iconic Grand Central Terminal have created their own stories, set on the same day, just after the end of World War II, in a time of hope, uncertainty, change, and renewal…. A war bride awaits the arrival of her GI husband at the platform…A...

BONUS: This edition contains an Alice I Have Been discussion guide and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb. Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young...

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.   “The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars.”—USA...

Con questo racconto Melanie Benjamin conduce il lettore nell’eccitante e fastoso mondo del suo romanzo, I cigni della Quinta Strada. Un incantevole prequel, in cui si assiste all’incontro-scontro tra l’alta società newyorkese e lo star system hollywoodiano nel momento in cui la vita di Ernest...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. People’s...

Il 17 ottobre 1975 fa la sua comparsa nelle edicole americane un numero speciale di Esquire che mostra in copertina la foto di profilo di un Truman Capote grasso e pallido, e una didascalia che reclamizza l’ultimo, attesissimo racconto dell’acclamato autore di A sangue freddo. Titolo: La Côte...

È il 1927 quando Anne Morrow incontra per la prima volta Charles Lindbergh. Lei è una ragazza piena di grazia e impeto giovanili, con i capelli scuri e curve inadatte agli abiti dalla linea dritta dell’epoca. Figlia dell’ambasciatore americano in Messico, un uomo appartenente allo stesso mondo...

È il 1914 e la venticinquenne Frances Marion, sull’orlo del secondo divorzio, ha appena lasciato la sua casa nel nord della California per dirigersi a Los Angeles, dove è determinata a vivere in modo indipendente come artista, sebbene fino a quel momento si sia limitata a disegnare bottiglie di...

Pochi romanzi sono amati quanto Alice nel paese delle meraviglie. Ma chi era veramente l’eroina del romanzo di Lewis Carroll? Alice Pleasance Liddell ci invita a compiere un viaggio nella sua memoria e nel corso della sua lunga esistenza, segnata da un libro – e da un dagherrotipo, nel quale era...

Robber's Dog Pub Presents: A genreless anthology for charity. Inside this book there are dragons. Twenty stories and poems from nineteen writers. Stories from award winning veterans to print debuts, each entry is a different genre than the one before it, from literary fiction, to urban fantasy,...