It's Just Historical

Interview with CW Gortner, Author of THE FIRST ACTRESS

September 10, 2020 Susanne Dunlap
It's Just Historical
Interview with CW Gortner, Author of THE FIRST ACTRESS
Show Notes

Listen in while C.W. Gortner and I talk about his latest book, about the fascinating, larger-than-life Sarah Bernhardt. There have been so many great reviews, but I particularly loved this one: “A literal drama queen, the historical Bernhardt provides a great wealth of material—sleeping in a coffin, keeping pumas as pets, the circles in which she moved with the likes of Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde—for the creation of a colorful melodrama, equal parts flamboyancy and pathos. Since Bernhardt loved to extravagantly mythologize her own story, she would doubtless delight in Gortner’s first-person fictionalization of her extraordinary life.”Booklist What's not to like?