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The Last Mona Lisa: Your Ticket to Adventure

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Jonathan

Bestselling author and fine artist, Jonathan Santlofer, has taken a real-life event – the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the Salon Carré in the Louvre Museum – and used it as the basis for The Last Mona Lisa. A People Magazine Read more…

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New York Public Library Book of the Day

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Jonathan

Honored “The Last Mona Lisa” is the New York Public Library “Book of the Day”! The New York Public Library is an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education.

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Crime Reads – Art Theft and Forgery

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Jonathan

I’ve spent a lot of time researching art theft and forgery. One in particular—the notorious 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum. Here’s how it went: a recently fired employee hid in a closet overnight, emerged at dawn on a day the Read more…

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Publisher’s Weekly Review – The Last Mona Lisa

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Jonathan

“The real-life theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the Louvre on Aug. 21, 1911, by workman Vincenzo Peruggia provides the backdrop for this outstanding caper from Nero Award winner Santlofer (Anatomy of Fear). In 2019, Luke Perrone, a nontenured university professor of art Read more…

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Kirkus Reviews – The Last Mona Lisa

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Jonathan

      “Santlofer crafts a layered and absorbing art mystery, complete with exciting action scenes and beautiful descriptions of the city of Florence and its art as well as Paris and Nice. It’s the human story at the heart of it, though, that really Read more…

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Author Interviews: Jonathan Santlofer

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Jonathan

 Five years ago, author and artist Jonathan Santlofer was at home with his wife, food writer Joy Santlofer, when Joy began feeling feverish. Joy, who had undergone outpatient surgery the day before for a torn meniscus in her knee, called her doctor’s office and Read more…

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The New Yorker: Briefly Noted

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Jonathan

“The Widower’s Notebook, by Jonathan Santlofer (Penguin). In this memoir, a novelist and artist contends with the sudden death of his wife. Santlofer adds new insights to the familiar genre of the grief memoir by exploring the ways in which men are expected to handle Read more…

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Lit Hub: On Men and Grief: Dispatches from my Book Tour

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Jonathan

A hand goes up from the back of the room. It is an unexpected full house in a southern bookstore where I have been invited to talk about my memoir, The Widower’s Notebook. The man, late middle age, salt and pepper hair, says, “My best Read more…

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The Washington Post – Do men and women experience grief differently?

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Jonathan

“Five years ago, Jonathan Santlofer’s wife, Joy, died unexpectedly following a routine outpatient procedure. In the days and months following her death, Santlofer kept a “widower’s notebook” — a collection of thoughts and drawings he polished and bound into a memoir of the same title. Read more…

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The Sunday Times of London – In a Time of Grief, Turning to Art

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Jonathan

Here’s an essay The Times and The Sunday Times of London, asked me to write about The Widower’s Notebook. Read the original article here. Friday, August 16, 2013 appeared to be a normal day. My wife, Joy, had undergone minor out-patient knee surgery — the Read more…

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