About
Leslie Johansen Nack’s latest memoir, Nineteen, A Daughter’s Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery, is due in October 2025. She is the author of two award-winning indie books, Fourteen, A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing and Survival, which won five indie awards, and her debut historical fiction novel, The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies, which won six indie awards including the 2023 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold in Historical Fiction. She has a degree in English literature from UCLA and is a member of The Authors’ Guild, The Historical Novel Society, and the National Memoir Association. She lives outside Seattle with her husband. www.lesliejohansennack.com
Featured Work
The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies
The true-life story of Marion Davies’ thirty-four-year relationship with William Randolph Hearst including a whirlwind courtship, a movie career spanning two decades and forty-four films, a secret child, and harrowing family excesses, not to mention a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. The Blue Butterfly is a behind-the-scenes look into the opulent private life of Marion Davies and how the movie Citizen Kane stole her legacy and turned everyone against her.
