Season 5, Episode 13 - Marlie Parker Wasserman
Season 5, Episode 13 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Marlie Parker Wasserman, author of the novel Path of Peril. During the interview, host Colin Mustful talks with Wasserman about why President Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to travel abroad while in office, the career of White House Secretary Maurice C. Latta who served for nine different presidents, and how she went from a university press publisher to writing historical crime fiction. Don’t miss it!
About the Author
Marlie Parker Wasserman writes historical crime fiction. Her debut novel, THE MURDERESS MUST DIE, tells the story of Martha Place, the first woman to die in the electric chair. Her second novel, PATH OF PERIL, is a twisty tale of multiple assassins scheming to murder Teddy Roosevelt in 1906 at the Panama Canal. Her forthcoming novel, INFERNO ON FIFTH, is based on the true story of a deadly hotel fire in Manhattan in 1899. When she is not writing, Marlie sketches and travels. Topping her bucket list is a visit to each of the United States’ sixty-two national parks. She has visited forty-two to date. Her newest novel Path of Peril, imagines what the newspapers feared to report and what historians never discovered about Roosevelt's risky trip to Panama in 1906.
