Melanie Benjamin Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/melanie-benjamin/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:51:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Melanie Benjamin Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/melanie-benjamin/ 32 32 38398750 Mistress of the Ritz https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/mistress-of-the-ritz/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/mistress-of-the-ritz/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:23:44 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12819 I began this week with a novel that took place partly during World War II so will keep it clean and end that way. Except, Mistress of the Ritz takes place in the thick of it—Nazi headquarters in Paris, the Hotel Ritz. Author Melanie Benjamin is back with a historical fiction based on the life […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/mistress-of-the-ritz/feed/ 4 12819 Hollywood Women: The Girls in the Picture https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/hollywood-women-the-girls-in-the-picture/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/hollywood-women-the-girls-in-the-picture/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:07:06 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10090   Mary Pickford was one of the first Hollywood stars, having acted from the time she was a child to not only maintaining her film career when silent moves became ‘talkies’, but going on to create her own studio, giving her and her partners the creative control actors didn’t have at the time. Frances Marion […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/02/hollywood-women-the-girls-in-the-picture/feed/ 6 10090 The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/the-swans-of-fifth-avenue-by-melanie-benjamin/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/the-swans-of-fifth-avenue-by-melanie-benjamin/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:28:52 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7227 Wonderful news, kittens, one of my 5 star, favorite novels of 2016 comes out in paperback tomorrow! The Swans of Fifth Avenue is fabulously divine reading about Truman Capote, 1950s Manhattan and wealthy people behaving badly. Witty and sharp, it is THE antidote for everything that is dreary right now.     Once upon a time […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/10/the-swans-of-fifth-avenue-by-melanie-benjamin/feed/ 0 7227 The Swans of Fifth Avenue https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-swans-of-fifth-avenue/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-swans-of-fifth-avenue/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:34:33 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5815   Once upon a time there was a group of very special women who lived in New York City. They were icons of fashion and social arbiters of everything that was right about high society. It was the 1950s and they were Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Gloria Guinness, Pamela Churchill, and Marella Agnelli and they […]

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