A conversation with Renée Rosen

Name: A conversation with Renée Rosen
Start: 2025-04-30T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-30T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 16699 Bagley Road, Middleburg Heights, OH 44130

Schedule

Wed Apr 30 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

16699 Bagley Road, Middleburg Heights, OH 44130 | Middleburg Heights, OH

Join us at our Middleburg Heights Branch for a conversation with Renée Rosen, author of "Let's Call Her Barbie."
Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/12898509
Rosen is the USA Today bestselling author of "Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl," "The Social Graces," "Park Avenue Summer," "Windy City Blues," "White Collar Girl," "What the Lady Wants," and "Dollface." Rosen lives in Chicago.
In "Let's Call Her Barbie," Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, and she knows what she’s setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up.
In 1956, the only dolls on the market for little girls let them pretend to be mothers. Ruth’s vision for a doll shaped like a grown woman and outfitted in an enviable wardrobe will let them dream they can be anything.
As Ruth assembles her team of creative rebels—head engineer Jack Ryan who hides his deepest secrets behind his genius and designers Charlotte Johnson and Stevie Klein, whose hopes and dreams rest on the success of Barbie’s fashion—she knows they’re working against a ticking clock to get this wild idea off the ground.
In the decades to come—through soaring heights and devastating personal lows, public scandals and private tensions— each of them will have to decide how tightly to hold on to their creation. Because Barbie has never been just a doll—she’s a legacy.
📕 Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.