The Art Spy: Registration Opens on August 20th @ 10am

The author, Michelle Young will be presenting the extraordinary untold story of the French Resistant Hero, Rose Valland. Please come join me on Wednesday, September 10th, at the Marx Family Black Box Theater at Greenwich Library.

Looking forward to seeing you there.
Warmly,
Lynda

*Mark your calendar, registration open at
10:00am Wednesday, August 20, 2025

See below for further info:

# AuthorsLive: Michelle Young Uncovers The Art Spy and the Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

Authors Live welcomes author and journalist Michelle Young to discuss The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, her riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II that uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces.
Michelle will be joined in conversation by Suzanne Nelson, award-winning author of dozens of middle grade novels, and her new gripping adult debut, The Librarians of Lisbon, which follows two best friends working as librarians and covert agents in neutral Portugal during World War II.

On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?

Based on troves of previously undiscovered documents, The Art Spy chronicles the brave actions of the key Resistance spy in the heart of the Nazi’s art looting headquarters in the French capital. A veritable female Monuments Man, Valland has, until now, mostly been written out of the annals, despite bearing witness to history’s largest art theft.
Copies of The Art Spy will be available for purchase and signing with thanks to Diane's Books.

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Michelle Young is an award-winning journalist, author, and professor whose writing and photography has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, The Forward, and Narratively. She is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is a Professor of Architecture. She is the founder of the publication Untapped New York. She divides her time between New York City, Paris, and the Berkshires, Massachusetts.
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The global turmoil from WWII placed a tremendous strain on Europe’s cultural institutions. Historic towns, influential cities, and major centers of vibrant cultural heritage were caught in the crossfire of the conflict. Much of Europe’s material culture, art, and historically significant locations were at risk of being lost through destruction or thievery. Hitler himself encouraged the looting of important art to curate his own ideal museum.
With this backdrop, author Michelle Young brings to life the heroism of those who aimed to protect the world’s treasures from destruction and capture by the Nazi forces sweeping through Europe.
In her new book, The Art Spy, available this May, Young brings to life the story of Rose Valland, a French Allied spy who prevented the destruction of the Jeu de Paume Museum in 1940s Paris. Incorporating previously undiscovered historical and extensive archival research, Young illustrates how Rose worked in secret to sabotage Nazi efforts to plunder the world’s cultural inheritance. Rose, who until now has been invisible from historic records, comes to light as a key savior of historical masterpieces.Rose Valland (wiki)