Join the Live Event
Join Us on Sept 7, 2023 at 6 PM EST
for a free Virtual Library Event with
Heather Macadam and Simon Worrall, authors of “Star Crossed”
Paris, 1940. The city is under German occupation and art, culture and music have become acts of defiance. Spirited student of arts and Jewish teenager Annette Zelman and young, Catholic poet Jean Jausion have found romance despite opposition from their families. For a time the couple feel they have avoided both their parents’ threats and the relentless Nazis, but the forces gathering around the pair set them on divergent and tragic paths.
Star Crossed is drawn from never-before-published family letters, archival sources and interviews and illustrates what life was like in a city under Hitler’s regime.
Heather Dune Macadam began her career as a performance artist and Dancer with the Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company before turning to writing. Her books include Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz, which she co-wrote with the 716th woman in Auschwitz and 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz.
Simon Worrall has written for The Smithsonian, The London Sunday Times, The Guardian, Paris Review, Conde Naste Traveler and The New Yorker. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine. His books include The Man Who Forged America and The Very White of Love.
