The Stolen Lady by Laura Morelli

OK, you probably have heard of the enigmatic Lisa Gherardini… or as she’s more often called, Mona Lisa. But did you know that the staff of The Louvre spirited most of the museum’s collection (including Lisa’s portrait) out of Paris just before the Nazis arrived to plunder the treasures? Women drove the escape vehicles!

As part of our interview, author Morelli tells me about her first “meeting” with Lisa, and discusses how her work as an art historian and teacher supports her writing, and reveals the process she uses when needing to think about certain questions as a historical novelist instead of a scholar.

Read my interview with Laura Morelli, author of The Stolen Lady