My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Markya Biaggio, author of the book Margery and Me. Maryka is a former professor of psychology and practicing clinical psychologist. She began writing novels in her middle years, and she’s been writing up a storm since then. Now she’s an award-winning novelist specializing in historical fiction based on real people. She loves unearthing the stories of people overlooked by history and bringing them back to life—portraying their challenges and foibles and rekindling their emotional world. She prides herself on carefully researching the period and people and providing readers with an immersive experience.
Her fiction has won several accolades, including Willamette Writers Award, Oregon Writers Colony Award, Historical Novel Society Review Editors’ Choice, La Belle Lettre Award, an Upper Peninsula of Michigan Notable Books Award, a Regional Arts & Council grant, and a Publishers Weekly pick.
She’s an avid opera fan and enjoys Gardening, art films, and, of course, great fiction. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
In my book review, I stated Margery and Me is a historical fiction by Maryka Biaggio. Mina Crandon to her friends – and Margery to the world – discovers she has an amazing ability. She can talk to the dead – specifically, her brother, Walter, who died in a train accident. Before long, she has captured the attention of some very famous people and organizations – some of whom believed in her spiritual abilities and some who did not. Her biggest opposition was Harry Houdini.
This story is told from the voice of Walter, and he doesn’t hold back. It seems Margery isn’t a prim and proper lady. Although married to a doctor, she loves to flirt and finds comfort in many of her male supporters. And Walter does his best to dissuade her from making a mess of things – or more of a mess than she’s already made.
Can she really summon the dead? Do psychics really exist? What would you have decided back in the 1920s?
Maryka based this book on the true story of Margery Crandon, and I Love how she finds people that history forgot! I loved The Gun Girl and the Tall Guy, and I loved Margery and Me, too! Pick up a copy and you won’t be sorry!
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