Season 5, Episode 2 - Linda Joy Myers
Season 5, Episode 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Linda Joy Myers, author of the novel The Forger of Marseille. During the interview, host Colin Mustful talks with Myers about Varian Fry, the American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the surprising moment of inspiration that led from being a memoirist to a novelist, and her new interview series called The Story Behind the Story. Don’t miss it!
About the Author
Linda Joy Myers has always been haunted by the power of the past to affect people in the stream of time. Her grandmother's stories about World War II sparked her interest in history, which she later integrated into her personal struggles with intergenerational trauma and her work as a therapist and writer. As the founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers, Linda Joy has authored four books on memoir writing, including The Power of Memoir and Journey of Memoir. Her own memoirs, Don't Call Me Mother and Song of the Plains, have received prestigious awards. When she's not writing, Linda Joy enjoys traveling, tending to her garden, and sharing her passion for history with her children and grandchildren. In her newest novel, The Forger of Marseille, Sarah, a nineteen-year-old Jewish artist living in Paris at the outset of World War II, joins a secret network in Marseille dedicated to saving political refugees, writers, and artists from arrest by Hitler's Gestapo.
