Allison Pataki figures the overlooked women of the past will captivate today’s public as much as they fascinate her. Millions of readers of her historical novels have proved her right.
Her subjects range from the unlucky-in-love Midwestern cereal heiress who built Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, to the French beauty who briefly captured Napoleon’s heart, to a once-towering now-forgotten trailblazer in 19th century American literature.
Pataki will be in Naples on Monday, Feb. 19, to speak in the Nick Linn Lecture Series for the Friends of the Library of Collier County.
The Nick Linn Series luncheons and lectures are fundraisers by the nonprofit Friends group, whose efforts benefit the Collier County Public Library system’s 10 branches. (Tickets for this year’s series are sold out. To become a Friends member and learn about next year’s series, go to www.collier-friends.org.)
Allison Pataki’s next book publishes in March
Pataki, who is the daughter of former New York Gov. George Pataki, will see her 10th book, “Finding Margaret Fuller,” published March 19.