Author Event: I Will Be the Woman He Loved by Tania Romanov & Matthew Félix

Join us for a special event with Tania Romanov & Matthew Félix, authors of I Will Be the Woman He Loved. This event is free, but we appreciate your RSVP below so we can plan for your attendance.

In this, her fourth and most personal memoir, Tania Romanov chronicles her search for a new identity after the end of her trailblazing career and the loss of her soulmate, her husband Harold. Over a two-week walk along England’s Thames Path, Tania reflects on their love story and their battle against cancer—reflections that also reveal a lifelong fight to be herself. The daughter of refugees, a child immigrant ostracized for being a "Communist," and a white girl at a mostly Black school, in I Will Be the Woman He Loved, Tania revisits past lives, loves, and lessons. She recounts her challenges in a pre-#MeToo, male-dominated workplace, as well as the joys of her world travels with Harold. All the while, she struggles to come to terms with a future very different from what she imagined—one in which she must rediscover her love of life and redefine herself yet again.

“The thread tying together Romanov’s story is the determination to be herself. Her tale remindsus that no matter the challenge, we always have the choice to reinvent ourselves.”—Eva Auchincloss, former executive director Women’s Sports Foundation

“Tania’s walk proves full of insights as she struggles to envision a future in the wake of devastating loss. I Will Be the Woman He Loved is a book to which every woman—single, married, divorced, or widowed—can relate.” —The Hon. Julie M. Tang, retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge

“Tania doesn’t have answers, so she does what she knows how to do best: she walks. An enjoyable read that offers adventure and hope.” —Ann Miller, former TV executive and Emmy Award-winning executive producer, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Tania Romanov Amochaev is the author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women (Travelers’ Tales, 2018), also published in Serbian as Po Našemu (Akadems Kaknjiga, 2020); Never a Stranger (Solificatio, 2019), a collection of award-winning travel essays; One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia (Travelers’ Tales, 2020), published in Russia as СТО ЛЕТ ИЗГНАНИЯ (Rosspen Publishers, 2021) and winner of Gold for Memoir in the Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards; and San Francisco Pilgrimage (Solificatio, 2022). Tania’s work has been featured in multiple travel anthologies, including The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women’s Travel Writing series. Born in the former Yugoslavia, Tania spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Italy, before emigrating to the United States, where she grew up in San Francisco’s Russian community. A graduate of San Francisco public schools, she went on to serve as CEO of three technology companies: Comserv (NYSE), QRS (NASDAQ), and Natural Language, a start-up acquired by her board member Bill Gates’ Microsoft. Tania subsequently served on the boards of numerous companies, including software maker Symantec.

Matthew Félix is the author of four books, a certified life coach, and a speaker. Publishers Weekly called his debut novel, A Voice Beyond Reason, “(a) highly crafted gem.” Former host of the San Francisco Writers Conference Podcast, Matthew regularly conducts interviews at San Francisco Bay Area bookstores and cultural institutions. He also ghost-writes, edits, designs, publishes, and markets books for other authors. matthewfelix.com

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