The Tenants of The Hotel Biron (Essential Prose Series)
Laura Marello narrates through Steichen.” Rodin, Camille Claudel, Picasso, Rousseau, Nijinski, Matisse, Rilke, all tenants of Hôtel Biron, are all excitedly human, presented by manuscripts fictionally collected. There is a love story: Rodin and Claudel,  amidst wild theologies of art. Each character speaks to us from manuscripts.  Paul NelsonBacked by strict scholarly research, Marello's novel, Tenants of the Hotel Biron, brings us a unique understanding of the people whose lives crossed in the Hotel: Rodin, Claudel, Picasso, Satie, Matisse and others. This is a compelling story on a real and imagined Paris --– the ravishing bohemian Paris of the early 1900s. -- Jennifer ClementTenants of the Hotel Bironis a  wild ride, comprised of diary entries, notebooks, letters,  each and all invented, though highly researched, attributed to painters, sculptors  in Paris early last century.  Its pieces unfold to form a composite that fascinates: the reader eavesdrops, discovering a secret world.  --Kirk Nesset