By Elodie Barnes | On January 13, 2025 | Updated March 15, 2025 | Comments (0)
Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941–June 26, 2012) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, essayist, and journalist. She’s best remembered for her romantic comedy films, including When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail.
As a prolific essayist and journalist, her trademark skepticism, wit, and intimate writing style made her hugely successful, and she deserves to be remembered just as much for her prose as her screenplays. Read More→
By Elodie Barnes | On November 8, 2024 | Updated March 15, 2025 | Comments (0)
Lee Miller (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977) was an American photographer and war correspondent. For many years she was known as the muse and lover of Surrealist artist Man Ray.
She was extraordinarily talented in her own right, moving with ease from the fashion circles of New York, to the Surrealist circles of Paris, to front-line photography in World War II.
Her life and work has been painstakingly documented and promoted by her son Antony Penrose, and most recently has been the subject of a 2023 film produced by and starring Kate Winslet. Read More→
By Elodie Barnes | On September 7, 2024 | Updated March 15, 2025 | Comments (1)
Flora Thompson (December 5, 1876 – May 21, 1947), was an English novelist and poet, best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford.
The commercial and critical success of the books — Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green — is such that they have never been out of print, and were adapted by the BBC for a four-season series in 2008. Read More→
By Elodie Barnes | On June 9, 2024 | Updated March 15, 2025 | Comments (0)
Jan Morris (October 2, 1926 – November 2, 2020) was a Welsh author and historian, whose work spanned the genres of journalism, memoir, history, essays, articles, and novels.
As a writer, she is best known for her Pax Britannia trilogy (a social history of the British Empire) and her written portraits of cities including Trieste, Venice, Oxford, Hong Kong, and New York City.
She is also famous for her transition from male to female in 1972, making her one of the first transgender public figures. Read More→
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