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Though much is known about the famous painter Georgia O’Keeffe, little has been written about her lifelong friend Anita Pollitzer, the Jewish trailblazer of the American suffragist movement.  The program led by author Liza Bennett delves into their fifty-year friendship and the correspondence that reveals so much about the inner lives and aspirations of these two remarkable women who helped to modernize the world and women’s roles in it.

Pollitzer was the youngest daughter of a wealthy, well-connected Charleston, South Carolina family.  Her father, a successful rice merchant who died when she was just 15, and her mother were pillars of their Jewish community and leaders of, the first Reform Judaism congregation in America (Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim) which had been founded by Anita’s grandfather.  The Pollitzers were politically active, socially conscious, and involved with just about every progressive movement in the city.  Anita’s two older sisters were founding members of Charleston’s National Woman’s Party and had early on recruited Anita to their cause.

Based on extensive research, including their fifty-year correspondence, Georgia & Anita casts light on the friendship of these two women who, in different ways, helped to modernize the world and women’s roles in it.

Liza Bennett is a full-time writer and former advertising executive.  She has published ten novels. Georgia & Anita is her first work of nonfiction.

Purchase a copy of the book HERE and support one of our local independent bookstores in the Berkshires.

Purchase a copy of the book HERE and support one of our local independent bookstores in the Berkshires.