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Join author and Untapped New York founder Michelle Young to celebrate the launch of her new book!
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Author and Untapped New York founder Michelle Young will be in conversation with Justin Rivers about her new book The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, sharing the story of Rose Valland, art looting in WWII, and behind the scenes into her research and discoveries.
A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, The Art Spy uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's greatest masterpieces.
“Packed with the intrigue of a spy novel, the tension of a wartime thriller, and the vivid detail of great narrative history... With The Art Spy, Young arrives as a major new voice in narrative nonfiction." — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway and The Aviator and the Showman
“Meticulously researched and beautifully written...Young brings to life a forgotten heroine of World War II, one who richly deserves this posthumous portrayal... A must read, and highly recommended.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Queen
"A gripping account of Valland’s passionate one-woman fight to preserve France’s artistic heritage, The Art Spy is a must-read." — Lynne Olson, New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Madame Fourcade's Secret War
Michelle Young is the author of Secret Brooklyn, Secret New York: Hidden Bars & Restaurants, Broadway, and the forthcoming narrative non-fiction book, The Art Spy, to be published by HarperOne, an imprint of Harper Collins. Michelle is also the founder of Untapped New York, a Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a scholar in the New York Public Library’s Allen Room. Michelle’s writing and photography have been published in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Hyperallergic, The Forward, Business Insider, Curbed, Metropolis Magazine and more. She was featured on the History Channel production The Engineering That Built the World, Netflix’s Stay Here, Smithsonian Channel’s Searching for Secrets, PBS’ 10 That Changed America, National Geographic’s Strange Truths, and Tell Me Something I Don’t Know with Stephen Dubner.
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