“From Shakespeare to Beauvoir: A Feminist Life in Books”
Charlene Ball is the author of Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer (SheWrites Press, 2017) and co-author, with Libby Ware, of Murder at the Estate Sale (Black Opal Books) and Murder at the Book Fair (in progress). Dark Lady tells the story of Emilia Bassano Lanyer, who published a book in 1611 that called for women’s equality and freedom. Emilia also may have been the “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Murder at the Estate Sale is the first in The Molly and Emma Booksellers series, about two
women booksellers who solve mysteries. Charlene and Libby write mysteries together under the pen name of Lily Charles.
Charlene has taught English and Women’s Studies, and now writes and sells antiquarian books with her partner and wife, Libby Ware. Charlene lives in Atlanta about a mile from Libby. She is a longtime member of First E.