Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry Jones

Heloise d'Argenteuil, the Parisian scholar and celebrated abbess who, as a young woman, had a passionate and tragic love affair with Abelard, the world's most famous philosopher in 12th-century Paris, in THE SHARP HOOK OF LOVE Josephine Baker is only the latest of kick-ass women in history whose stories I've told in my fiction. Martin Luther King's March on Washington. In 1963 she was the only woman to speak at Dr. She changed the world, making it a more equitable place for all - even when it cost her her castle. Known as the dancer in the banana skirt, Josephine Baker was so much more: a talented singer, a World War II Resistance spy a noted Civil Rights Activist. Her 2021 induction made her the first black woman to receive this honor.

Josephine Baker, the star of my novel JOSEPHINE BAKER'S LAST DANCE, now rests in the Panthéon in Paris, the burial place reserved for France's most revered and highly respected citizens including Voltaire, Nobel Prize winning scientist Marie Curie, and other luminaries.

Four Sisters, All Queens by Sherry Jones