In Person Author Visit - Mary Noe

Local author and Gold Coast patron Mary Noe - lawyer, writer, lecturer and Professor at St. John’s University’s Collins College of Professional Studies - takes us on a journey from the halls of Harvard University to the door of J.P. Morgan Jr.'s mansion on Long Island’s Gold Coast. Her new book is a delightful true crime text about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early 20th century. The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan: A Life of Arsenic, Anarchy, and Intrigue is the true story of Harvard instructor Erich Muenter who vanished after an autopsy revealed that his first wife had died from arsenic poisoning shortly after giving birth. Nine years later, using the alias Frank Holt, he was remarried, living in Ithaca, NY and teaching German at Cornell University...all while becoming increasingly deranged. Muenter’s efforts to keep the U.S. out of the war had failed; he blamed famous financier J.P. Morgan, Jr. for financing the Allies in defiance of President Woodrow Wilson’s neutrality policy; and he decided to act. Please join us on Sunday, October 26th at 2PM as we welcome Mary to the Gold Coast Library to speak about her book.