Yona Zeldis McDonough
Inspired by an heiress living in Paris when Hitler invaded, who might have gone home like most Americans did, but instead stayed and risked her life to help strangers.
A Chicago Heiress Who Helped Jews Escape the Nazis
Tag: author Q & A
Odd Woman Out: a Q&A with Melanie Chartoff
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Melanie Chartoff has worked as an actor both on and off Broadway, and she’s endeared herself to audiences with the characters she’s created on Fridays, Seinfeld, Newhart, Parker Lewis and Rugrats. Now, she’s turned to writing, and she talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about Odd Woman Out: Exposure in Essays and Stories (Books… Read more »
A Romantic Novel That Acknowledges the Limits of Romance
Sarah M. Seltzer
Miriam Parker’s The Shortest Way Home goes deeper than its bubbly, clear surface, subtly questioning conventional definitions of success for its heroine, Hannah, who begins the novel with a lucrative job and a rich boyfriend.