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Author Heath Lee Reveals ‘The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon’

Wed, Apr 23, 2025
Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre

In partnership with the Historical Book Club of North Carolina and Well-Spring, A Life Plan Community, please join us as we welcome award-winning historian and biographer Heath Hardage Lee, just as her latest book, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: Washington’s Most Private First Lady, debuts.

Heath’s narrative nonfiction book entitled The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home from Vietnam was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2019. Heath’s museum exhibition entitled The League of Wives: Vietnam POW MIA Advocates & Allies about Vietnam POW MIA wives premiered at the Dole Institute of Politics in May of 2017 and travelled to venues all over the United States through 2023. The League of Wives is currently being developed as a television series. Heath also writes about women’s history and politics for publications such as Time, The Hill, The Atlantic and White House History Quarterly. She currently serves on the Boards of FLARE the First Ladies Association for Research and Education and BIO Biographers International Organization. Heath’s new book The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: Washington’s Most Private First Lady is the first commercial biography of First Lady Pat Nixon in almost 40 years.

She will speak from 4-5 p.m. at Well-Spring’s Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre, followed by a reception and book signing.

Admission is free and open to the public… we do ask that you register so that we have enough food for everyone.

https://greensborobound.com/event/author-heath-lee-reveals-the-mysterious-mrs-nixon/