Episode 246 Interview with Melanie Benjamin

English - August 13, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 31.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
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This week we're talking to Melanie Benjamin whose book, MISTRESS OF THE RITZ, recounts the story of a little-known heroine of the French Resistance in German-Occupied France. Find out more about Melanie at http://melaniebenjamin.com and follow her on Twitter over at http://twitter.com/MelanieBen, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melanie-Benjamin-Author/208671032480607# and go check out her new podcast over at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-the-hell-are-we/id1462927166.

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Mentioned in this episode:

THE HOTEL ON PLACE VENDOME: LIFE, DEATH, AND BETRAYAL AT THE HOTEL RITZ IN PARIS by Tilar J. Mazzeo

Casablanca (Movie)

THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr

THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE by Melanie Benjamin

Au Revoir les Enfant (Movie)

The Tattered Cover

J. K. Rowling

THE PIONEERS: THE HISTORIC STORY OF THE SETTLERS WHO BROUGHT THE AMERICAN IDEAL WEST by David McCullough

Doris Kearns Goodwin

A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles

Paulette Jiles

Julie Otsuka

LEADING MEN by Christopher Castellani

Tennessee Williams