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\nMarch is Women's History Month.
\nWhen Hollywood auctioneer Emsl
ey Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New
York brownstone\, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is t
he diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger\, Vincent v
an Gogh's sister-in-law.
Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintin
gs. They were all she had\, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28-
year-old widow with a baby in the 1800's\, without any means of supporting
herself\, living in Paris where she barely spoke the language.
Ye
t\, she managed to introduce Vincent's legacy to the world.
Presenter: Marta Molnar is the author of the dual-timeline women's f iction novel "The Secret Life of the Sunflowers" about Vincent van Gogh's inspirational sister-in-law Johanna Bonger.
\nMarta is an avid art h istory enthusiast and a self-taught artist. She studied writing at Seton H ill University and Harvard University\, lived around the world\, then sett led down in the Northeast United States where she \;currently writes i n her version of Monet's garden. Marta is also the "USA Today" and "New Yo rk Times" bestselling author of over sixty novels of suspense\, romance\, and epic fantasy under the pen name Dana Marton. Writing as Dana Marton\, she's the recipient of the Rita Award\, the Daphne du Maurier Award of Exc ellence\, and was a quarter finalist for the BookLife Prize.
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