I Love Those Earrings: A Popular History from Ancient to Modern
Jane Merrill has published articles in 50 national magazines including The New Republic, New York, Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, Connoisseur, Town & Country, Harvard and History. She has written books on popular culture, beauty, lifestyle, and self-help. Her latest book, The Wedding Night: A Popular History, was also written with Chris Filstrup. Jane has graduate degrees from Columbia and Harvard and a BA from Wellesley, and has resided abroad on two continents. Of her three lovely accomplished daughters and daughter-in-law, all wear earrings except the youngest, who appreciates them as art objects. Jane and David, whose drawings of earring closures appear in the book, live on the St. George Peninsula in Maine and suburban Boston. Chris Filstrup is an academic librarian at Stony Brook University in NY, and the author of China: From Emperors to Communes and Beadazzled The Story of Beads. He has graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia universities. Filstrup teaches on New York City's special collections at Long Island University.