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The cover of The Pretense of Memory showing two shadowy figures and a flurry of fallin papers against a dark backdrop

Pre-order The Pretense of Memory!

In a nation eager to forget, one young man dares to remember, risking everything to make the truth impossible to ignore. Coming June 2026. Pre-Order today!

Current Mood: Work in Progress

Current Mood: Work in Progress

I am finishing up the new book, which is set in 1958 in Germany and the miracle years of the economic boom are in full swing. But just underneath the shiny surface, a darker reckoning looms… I thought you might like to see part of the book’s “mood board”

Meet the "most outspoken female voice in post-World War II cultural history restoration"

Meet the "most outspoken female voice in post-World War II cultural history restoration"

I stumbled on the story of Evelyn Tucker (1906-1996) while poking around elsewhere and needless to say, it caught my attention. Here's her Monuments Men Foundation entry, and her Wikipedia entry contains this nugget: "She was described as 'the most outspoken female voice in post-World War

A photo of Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans in a Wehrmacht uniform and Christoph Probst who is writing on a notepad. She is looking at Christoph and has a flower pinned to her clothing.

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start."

I’ve been thinking a lot about Sophie Scholl. If you don’t know her story, Sophie and her brother Hans and three friends, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Jurgen Wittenstein and Christoph Probst (among others) were a group of university students who undertook a campaign of passive resistance against the

Monuments Man

I learned about real-life Monuments Man James Rorimer when I was doing research for The Roses Underneath. I became fascinated with his story - a Harvard-educated curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who signed up as an infantry man but was quickly recruited into the newly formed Monuments Fine

Who's that guy?

Who's that guy?

I am fascinated by the cool cat on the left side of the famous photo of Monuments Man James Rorimer and the recovered painting Time and the Old Woman by Goya. He's not named in any description that I can find and he looks like he just wandered

Georgia O'Keeffe holding a sweet Siamese kitten and looking very happy

Every day is Caturday

Georgia O'Keeffe, childless cat lady

Georgia O’Keeffe is known to have lived with two very floofy chow chows (Bo and Chia) but she also had several cats who would accompany her on walks. Another thing I learned: O’Keeffe taught art in the Texas Panhandle at West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas

That Which Remains Book Launch

That Which Remains Book Launch

That Which Remains was launched in the middle of COVID during the height of the online event era. Luckily I have a husband who does events for a living and an entire cohort of generous participants that made the event fun. There was a virtual tour of Wiesbaden, a chat

Unending Torments

Unending Torments