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Something Beautiful Happened
Sunday, March 5, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EST
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A Virtual Evening with Author and Producer
Yvette Manessis Corporon
in Conversation with
Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
Seventy years after her Greek Orthodox grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during the Holocaust, her granddaughter, Yvette, sets out to track down the Jewish family’s descendants and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.
About Yvette Manessis Corporon
Yvette Manessis Corporon is an Internationally Best-Selling author and Emmy Award winning producer. She is the author of When the Cypress Whispers (Harper, 2014) and Something Beautiful Happened (Howard,
2017) and Where The Wandering Ends (coming 2022, Harper Muse). To date, Yvette’s books have been translated into 16 languages. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, two children, and the sweetest little white lab you’ve ever seen.
Yvette is three-time Emmy Award winning journalist who has traveled the world covering the biggest stories in news and entertainment. She is currently a Senior Producer with EXTRA. Yvette is also a recipient of the Silurian Award for Excellence in Journalism and the New York City Comptroller and City Council’s Award for Greek Heritage and Culture. A native New Yorker and daughter of Greek immigrants, Yvette studied Journalism and Classical Civilizations at NYU. She loves combining both of her passions and crafting stories from little known moments in history and mythology.
All Sunday Salon Series Programs are In Honor of Hidden Child Survivor, Judy Rodan
