CANCELLED - Stephanie Storey - Author Visit

Stephanie will join Baxter County Library in celebrating the power of aprons, symbols of family, community, and creation. In this special presentation—delivered only for the Baxter County Library—Stephanie will discuss “The Baker’s Daughter,” the famous muse of Renaissance master, Raphael.
Margherita Luti, known as “The Baker’s Daughter,” is one of the most famous muses in all of art history, and, as explored in Stephanie’s newest novel, Raphael, Painter in Rome, her ability to inspire Raphael comes in part from her life as the daughter of a baker.

With pivotal scenes set inside her father’s bakery—a shop smelling of yeast and butter and melted sugar and bursting with flour dust, rising dough, and flour pins—this discussion will explore how bakers and parents (and others who work behind aprons) have a unique ability to pass down the qualities of patience, creativity, and love to future generations.

Come join us for this exclusive presentation of Stephanie Storey’s newest art historical thriller, Raphael, Painter in Rome.

Stephanie Storey’s debut novel Oil and Marble was hailed as “tremendously entertaining” by The New York Times, was named one of Hudson Booksellers’ Best Books of 2016, is a Los Angeles Times and #1 Amazon bestseller, and is currently in development as a feature film by Pioneer Pictures. Her newest novel, Raphael, Painter in Rome, is due out in April 2020 in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death (April 1520).

Stephanie has a degree in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University and attended a PhD program in Art History—before leaving to get her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She has studied art in Italy and been on a pilgrimage to see every Michelangelo on display in Europe. She has also been a national television producer for nearly twenty years in Los Angeles for shows including Alec Baldwin on ABC, Arsenio Hall for CBS, and Emmy-nominated The Writers’ Room for Sundance Channel. When not writing novels or producing television, she can usually be found — with her husband, an actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer — traveling the world in search of her next story.

For more information about Stephanie Storey, visit https://stephaniestorey.com/.