Short fiction includes “Ivan the Terrible at the Circus”, “The Danger of Theatre”, and “The Girl Who Founded Nebraska.” “Among the laughs is a quirky sort of wisdom that makes the book one of those small treasures you’ll keep in the middle drawer of your desk.” Pat Craig, Theatre Critic, San Jose Mercury News.

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The four stories in this 244-page book include:

.Jenny Gets Her Wheels On is the story of a successful actress who suffers an accident that confines her to a wheelchair.  Determined not to see her onstage career end, she changes course and becomes a popular “stand-up” comic.

The Girl with the Topaz Ring is a Rom-Com mystery.  Josh Tanner learns from his dying father that he has a half-sister he never knew about. With the help of computer nerd Sarah, he begins the search for his shadowy sibling.  As their quest becomes more complex, Josh realizes he needs Sarah more than he thought

The Ongoing Life of Margot Macomber imagines what might have happened to Margo immediately after the shooting of her husband in Ernest Hemingway’s short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.  Foreign intrigue and 1930’s politics come to the fore as Margo works her wiles.

Thea and Fritz: Berlin 1931-1933 traces three years in the lives of Germany’s most famous screenwriter/director team. Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang created two films that rank in nearly every critic’s all-time Top 100–Metropolis and M.  The time is just before Hitler comes to power.

Non-Fiction. The screenplays of John Howard Lawson provided roles for the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, and Susan Hayward. Due to his political beliefs (for a time he headed the Communist Party in Hollywood) he was one of the “Hollywood Ten” indicted by the House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1946 and was blacklisted. He continued to write for the stage, where he had begun his career in the 1920s and 30s. A must-have for fans of 1930s and 40s Hollywood.

The Ongoing Life of Margot Macomber

First published in History Through Fiction magazine.

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