Author Talk with Thomas Santopietro - Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty

Please join us for a presentation of author Tom Santopietro's definitive tribute to the glamour and character of a beloved icon, Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty, which includes rarely published details, photographs and stories about the lasting impact of Audrey Hepburn's remarkable life.

Written with the cooperation of her son Sean Ferrer and granddaughter Emma Ferrer and packed with beautiful photographs of the star at her most captivating, the book is a one-of-a-kind look at Hepburn's glamorous image and life. Award-winning designer Jeffrey Banks, who was a friend of Hepburn's, provides incisive fashion commentary. Always leading with her heart, the Academy Award-winning actress is shown here fully captured in all her complexity - an often self-doubting but brilliant and genuinely kind woman whose style and activism changed the world.

Actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion - Hepburn transcended her era and became a global idol whose appeal continues to soar in the twenty-first century.

Tom Santopietro is the author of the play JBKO about the life of Jacqueline Onassis, as well as nine books, including the national bestselling The Sound of Music Story, The New York Times Editor's Choice Considering Doris Day, and Sinatra in Hollywood. He is a frequent media commentator for television, radio, documentaries and podcasts. Over the past thirty-five years, Tom has managed three dozen Broadway shows, including Jersey Boys, Phantom of the Opera, and Master Class. A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, Tom and the American Bar Association are equally happy that he is not practicing law.

Elm Street Books will be on site to sell books which the author will sign after the program. The library receives a percentage of these sales.

Registration is required. Kindly register online or by calling (203) 762-6334.