This is from the Mark Twain House and Museum:
“The Mark Twain House & Museum presents an exciting evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bill Dedman who will discuss his New York Times bestseller Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune, coauthored by Paul Clark Newell, Jr. This event takes place on Tuesday, December 17, at 7:00 p.m. in the Mark Twain House Museum Center.
In 2009, when Bill Dedman noticed a grand home in New Caanan, Connecticut for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Come learn more about these mysteries and meet the author for a book signing after his talk.
About The Author: Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Bill Dedman’s series of stories about the Clarks became the most popular feature in the history of NBC’s news web site, topping 105 million page views. Bill is an investigative reporter for NBC. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for his work for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He got his start in journalism at age 16 as a copy boy at The Chattanooga Times, and has written for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and The New York Times.”