Join The Ivy Bookshop at Bird in Hand for a lighthearted + well-researched Valentine’s Day event about the passions of American presidents! Husband and wife duo Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, co-authors of Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House will discuss their project, a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House.
Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have written many award-winning books for adults and young adults. Their young adult mystery set in medieval Japan won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Their ten-book series on American ethnic groups, published by Oxford University Press, received many favorable reviews from such publications as The New York Times and the Miami Herald. The Hooblers’ other books for adults include The Monsters, which tells the story of Mary Shelley and the four people who helped inspire her classic novel Frankenstein; and The Crimes of Paris, a collection of famous French crimes that was excerpted in Vanity Fair. Dorothy has a master’s degree in American history from New York University.