The Dallas Woman’s Forum Book Club Presents
Lunch with an Author
featuring
Stephanie Dray
Author of Becoming Madam Secretary
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
12:30 – 2:00 PM
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Alexander Mansion
4607 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX
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This is a MEMBERS ONLY event.
Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to Tamara Harrison with link below.
Ever wanted to sit down with an author and just talk books? Now you have the chance! Please join us for Lunch with an Author sponsored by the Literary Department. We will enjoy a light lunch after our author discusses the story concepts, publishing her books and a wonderful presentation of the history of the novel.
Enjoy this special opportunity to hear from an author and discuss her book with fellow book lovers. Our guest author, Stephanie Dray will join us via zoom video call. The lunch is at no charge to our members.
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About our Author, Stephanie Dray
STEPHANIE DRAY is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical women’s fiction. Her award-winning work has been translated into eight languages and tops lists for the most anticipated reads of the year. Before she became a novelist, she was a lawyer and a teacher. Now she lives near the nation’s capital with her husband, cats, and history books.
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About Becoming Madam Secretary
New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and richly dramatic novel about Frances Perkins, one of the greatest political figures of the twentieth century, and an unsung heroine whose legacy is woven into the fabric of every American life.
Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite Mary Harriman Rumsey, the flirtatious budding author Sinclair Lewis, and the brilliant but troubled reformer Paul Wilson, with whom she falls deeply in love.
But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House.
Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR’s most trusted lieutenant—even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she’s willing to do—and what she’s willing to sacrifice—to save a nation.
Click here to visit Stephanie’s website and view the Readers’ Guide to the book.