Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop
in-conversation with Rosalind Brackenbury discussing her memoir
DAUGHTER OF SPIES
(Pact Press, $17.95) 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12TH, 6:30PM ET
DOORS OPEN TO HUGH’S VIEW AT 6PM

ABOUT THE BOOK: As a child, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, along with her five brothers, was raised to revere the tribal legends of the Alsop and Roosevelt families. Her parents’ marriage, lived in the spotlight of 1950s Washington where the author’s father, journalist Stewart Alsop, grew increasingly famous, was not what either of  her parents had imagined it would be. Her mother’s strict Catholicism and her father’s restless ambition collided to create a strangely muted and ominous world, one that mirrored the whispered conversations in the living room as the power brokers of Washington came and went through their side door. Through it all, her mother, trained to keep secrets as a decoding agent with MI5, said very little. In this brave memoir, the author explores who her mother was, why alcohol played such an important role in her mother’s life, and why her mother held herself apart from all her children, especially her only daughter. In the author’s journey to understand her parents, particularly her mother, she comes to realize that the secrets parents keep are the ones that reverberate most powerfully in the lives of their children.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop is the author of over sixty works of fiction for all ages, including the novels Island Justice and In My Mother’s House. Robert Stone selected her short story, “The Golden Darters,” for Best American Short Stories. Her fantasy novels for children, The Castle in the Attic and The Battle for the Castle, are considered classics of the genre. Daughter of Spies is her first memoir.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Rosalind Brackenbury was born in London, England, and has also lived in Scotland and France. She now lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband of 28 years. She was Key West’s second Poet Laureate in 2014-15. Her latest poetry collection Invisible Horses came out with Hanging Loose Press in May 2019. Her most recent novel, Without Her was published by Delphinium Books in July 2019 and was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews as: “A steady, cool, thoughtful novel…a meditation on loyalty, friendship, and the geometry of human interconnections.” Her novella, Elena, Leo, Rose came out in May 2022 from Open Boat Press, and a new novel, Bone Whispers is due out from Epicenter Press in 2024.

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