Noon at Tiffany's: An Historical, Biographical Novel
I BEGAN WRITING this book in January of 2007, after hearing an NPR broadcast about the discovery of a cache of 1,330 letters written between 1853 and the 1930's. The majority of this collection is made up of the weekly round robin letters circulated among Clara Wolcott, two of her three sisters, Emily and Kate, and their mother, Fannie. What makes these letters so noteworthy is the secret revealed within their yellowed pages--that Clara was, in fact, the designer of the iconic Tiffany lamps and of many of the glass and mosaic pieces that Louis C. Tiffany claimed were his own designs.