Tuesday Talk: Ellen Prentiss Campbell

Listening to Ghosts, Conjuring Characters

Local author and psychotherapist Ellen Prentiss Campbell will discuss her most recent novel Frieda’s Song.

This virtual talk will take place online at 7pm and those watching can leave comment during the Q&A section. Please visit the Tuesday Talks website for the link to the talk. 

Author and psychotherapist Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s most recent novel Frieda’s Song was inspired by the life of renowned psychotherapist Frieda Fromm Reichmann who fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and practiced at the Chestnut Lodge in Rockville until her death in 1957, and by the fire which destroyed the Lodge in 2009. In conversation with writer Virginia Hartman, Campbell will discuss the uses of history, experience, and imagination in her fiction.

 Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s fiction explores how history, chance, work, and people we love, shape lives. Her debut novel The Bowl with Gold Seams received the National Indie Excellence Award for Historical Fiction. Contents Under Pressure was nominated for the National Book Award. Known By Heart: Collected Stories appeared in 2020.  Campbell writes for The Washington Independent Review of Books and The Fiction Writers Review.  She lives in Cleveland Park.

Virginia Hartman’s debut novel The Marsh Queen will be published in May 2022. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Washingtonian, Redux, Potomac Review, Delmarva Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Sligo Journal, and Bluebird City, among others, and her work has been anthologized in Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women. She teaches creative writing at George Washington University and at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

The Tuesday Talks series is a Know Your Neighborhood program and is sponsored by the Cleveland Woodley Park Village, Cleveland Park Main Street, and Woodley Park Main Street.