Margalit Fox, author of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss is our featured speaker for Book Club Night. Enjoy an array of charcuterie foods, including cheese with gluten free crackers, and desserts with your book club and other readers at tables while hearing from the featured author. Followed by book signing.
America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. “Marm” Mandelbaum. In 1850, twenty-five-year-old Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s, she was a fixture of high society, an admired philanthropist, and a criminal mastermind!
“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood
$20 – Speaker, charcuterie, and dessert
$43 – Speaker, charcuterie, dessert, and hardcover book
In-person at The J
About the Author: Margalit Fox originally trained as a cellist and a linguist before pursuing journalism. As a senior writer in The New York Times's Obituary News Department, she wrote the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. Winner of the William Saroyan Prize for Literature and author of four previous nonfiction books, The Confidence Men, Conan Doyle for the Defense, The Riddle of the Labyrinth and Talking Hands. Fox lives in Manhattan with her husband.
