Learn About One Woman’s Art Journey with Pamela Reitman, author of Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life

Inspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds.

Join Pamela Reitman, author of new novel Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life, at Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera, CA on May 4th, 2025 at 1pm for an afternoon of historical fiction, readings, and book signings.

EVENT INFORMATION: 
May 4th, 2025 – 1pm
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA  94925

For more event information, please visit Book Passage’s event page here.

Copies of Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life will be available for purchase at the event, or can be purchased here.

About Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life:

As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler’s rise to power in 1938, Charlotte’s first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent form Berlin into exile with her grandparents.

When Charlotte’s grandmother leaps to her death, her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret, a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather’s insistence that suicide, not art, is her destiny too.

Haunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work “Life? Or Theater?” and get into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.

About Pamela Reitman:

Pamela Reitman is an award-winning writer with numerous publications in literary journals, news outlets, and magazines. She has a B.A. cum laude in English from Columbia and an MPH from the University of California Berkeley. She is retired from a career in public health and community service aimed at reducing the stigma of mental illness. Ms. Reitman was a past Director of Makor Or: A Jewish Meditation Center in San Francisco. She is lay ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition. She lives in Northern California with her husband.