Barbara Bluestone
Barbara Bluestone is writing the romantic suspense novel "The Minotaur in Paris."
…a courageous American photographer must choose between her heart and her country.
Adventurous, headstrong Ray Gordon ventures into forbidden territory, a camera her only weapon. Traumatized by her father’s death in World War I, she believes fiercely in pacifism. But as she roams Paris, documenting the misery of refugees fleeing from oppression in Germany, she realizes that she too must stand up and fight. What can a lone […]
Other People’s Words
For some years when I lived in Denmark, I worked as a translator. Viking ships, Bronze Age barrows, Greenland mummies, Renaissance castles, modern housing developments, pig farming –any book, article, or film that came my way was grist for my churning translation mill. Translator’s method Fueled by endless cups of coffee, I would plunge into […]
The diary that started it all…
On May 20, 1936, a young college girl boarded the SS Manhattan and, waving excitedly to her family on the pier, sailed out of New York harbor, bound for Paris. She was to spend eight months studying art and design at the Ecole des Arts Appliqués. The charming, lively Gladys Goodman was 21 years old, […]