Celebrating Susan Vreeland 

The life of New York Times best-selling author and Now Write! Fiction contributor Susan Vreeland will be celebrated this week in San Diego (see details below.)

Susan Vreeland is the internationally-known author of art-related historical fiction and four of her books are New York Times best-sellers.

Lisette’s List presents one woman’s yearning for art at a time when her family’s collection of paintings had to be hidden in the south of France from Nazi art thieves.
Clara and Mr. Tiffany reveals the talented woman who conceived of and designed the well-loved Tiffany leaded glass lamps.
Luncheon of the Boating Party depicts Renoir’s masterpiece, the personalities involved in its making, and the joie de vivre of late nineteenth century Paris.
Life Studies is a collection of stories of Impressionist painters told by people who knew them, as well as contemporary individuals encountering art in meaningful ways.
Girl in Hyacinth Blue traces an alleged Vermeer painting through the centuries.
The Passion of Artemisia illuminates Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
The Forest Lover follows rebel British Columbia painter Emily Carr in her encounters with native peoples and cultures.
What Love Sees tells the love story of a blind couple who refuse to accept limitations.
Four of these books have been winners of the Theodor Geisel Award, the highest honor given by the San Diego Book Awards.

All are welcome this Thursday, September 21, 12:30PM at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diego.

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