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Hannah Pakula

Hannah Pakula
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Hannah Pakula

Hannah Pakula is the author of The Last Empress, which was a New York Times notable book, The Last Romantic, which was called by Graham Greene the best biography and one of the three best books of the year, and An Uncommon Woman, which was a Los... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Hang in there
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My life in 8 words: "Filled with love, luck and punctuated by tragedies"
The Last Empress is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 16, 2010
The Last Empress will be released on November 16, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Nov 16, 2010
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The Last Empress will be released on November 03, 2009 in eBook
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Hang in there Q. What trait is most noticeable about you? A. My oversize glasses which I've been wearing for forty years. Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. Professional musician. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Going to concerts, especially chamber music. I'm also addicted to playing scrablble and backgammon on line while listening to WQXR (NYC's classical music station). I can't listen when I'm writing, because then I tend to write in rhythm with the music. Q. What’s your best quality? A. Stick-to-ittiveness Learn more about Hannah Pakula

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New York Social Diary, December 10, 2012
...Patricia Duff was talking to George Stephanopoulos and Alexandra Wentworth; Henry and Nancy Silverman, Alice Mayhew talking to Hannah Pakula, Peter Pringle, Peggy Siegal, Warren and Olivia Hoge, Jim and Kathy Hoge, John and Joan Jakobson, Robert...