With just over a month to the launch of The Age of Desire, I feel a tremor of anxiety.  Not that people won’t be captivated by the story of Edith Wharton’s life – what a story she left for me to write! -- but I worry as I send my characters out into the world just as a mother … [Read more...]

You may wonder how I came to write The Age of Desire.  It began one beautiful April day in Paris.  I was there on a business trip.  (For many years, I was a creative director at a large NY advertising shop.  I had a client in Switzerland who asked me to attend focus groups in … [Read more...]

While writing The Age of Desire, it soon became apparent that I needed a secondary character so the reader could view Edith’s life through someone else’s eyes.  I knew that a woman named Anna Bahlmann was both Edith’s childhood governess and later her literary secretary.  It … [Read more...]