Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Zibby was joined by the authors of The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, for an Instagram Live to talk about their GMA Book Club pick. Marie and Victoria share the story of how they met each other, why they're more like soulmates than collaborators, and how the social movements during the last year served to strengthen both their story and their interracial friendship. The pair also discuss how their trust in one another allowed them to weave an emotional and intricate historical fiction about Belle da Costa Greene, and where their partnership is taking them next.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
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0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray are the co-authors of the personal librarian. Marie Benedict is a lawyer with more
0:45.8	than 10 years experience as a litigator. A graduate of Boston College and the Boston University
0:50.6	School of Law, she is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of
0:55.2	the only woman in the room, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, Carnegie's Made, The Other Einstein,
1:00.2	and Lady Clementine, all have been translated into multiple languages. She currently lives in
1:04.6	Pittsburgh with her family. Victoria Christopher Murray is an acclaimed author with more than
1:09.4	one million books in print.
1:11.8	She has written more than 20 novels, including Stand Your Ground, an NAACP Image Award winner
1:17.3	for Outstanding Fiction and a library journal Best Book of the Year. She holds an MBA from the
1:23.1	NYU Stern School of Business. And by the way, the personal librarian was the Good Morning America
1:29.0	book pick. I hope you enjoy it. Hi. Hi. How are you guys? We're really good and surprised that we're
1:37.2	both here at the same time. I'm shocked. That was amazing. We have a whole series of tech failures in our pack. I'm sure everybody can relate to that. Hold on. I'm just turning the volume up because I can barely hear you. Okay. Let's try that. Yeah. Okay. Much better. Now you're blasting all over my room here. My dog is like running away. Anyway. Thank you so much for having them i think you probably know i've
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