Bring Melanie to Your Book Club
Free 30–45 minute Zoom visit for any club (scheduling permitting) reading any of her nine novels. Melanie’s theater background makes her a lively, engaging guest, and she takes the conversation wherever the club wants to go.
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A Journey Through Time
Explore the historical worlds behind Melanie Benjamin’s novels
1860s
MEMORY &
MYTH
The Victorian childhood that shaped Wonderland—and the woman left behind.
1860s-1880s
SPECTACLE & REINVENTION
Lavinia Warren, P.T.
Barnum, and the wedding that preempted the Civil War.
1888
FRONTIER &
SURVIVAL
A blizzard, two sisters, and the price of survival on the prairie.
1910s-1920s
HOLLYWOOD &
AMBITION
Frances Marion, Mary Pickford, and the friendship that built an industry
1920s-1930s
FLIGHT &
FAME
Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the cost of celebrity.
1930s
CROWN & SCANDAL
The Abdication, the rivalry, the two women at its center.
1930s-1940s
WAR &
RESISTANCE
Paris, the Ritz, and a marriage tested by occupation.
1960s
FREEDOM & SISTERHOOD
Two daughters, one wave, and the golden coast of California.
1960s-1970s
GLAMOUR & BETRAYAL
Babe Paley, Truman Capote, and the friendship he ended in print.
A Gift for Your Book Club
Period cocktails and mocktails for every novel—the drink they’d have poured at the Ritz in 1939 or the Plaza in the 1950s, plus a modern take and a non-alcoholic companion for each.
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Book Club Appreciation
Each month, Melanie shares some fun book club photos on her Substack—and sends a few of those clubs a little bundle of bookish goodies as thanks. Just email a group photo of your club holding the novel to her team at hello@melaniebenjamin.com.