Queen Of The Quiet Hours

In the brass-and-rosewood world of 1961 Manhattan, Vivienne Cole has just claimed the editor-in-chief chair at Éclat — the most coveted seat in American women's magazines.Eleven years of flawless ascent. Thirty-three years of a single, perfect lie.Because Vivienne Cole was born Iris Marie Coleman — a light-skinned Black woman from a Hartford mill town who stepped off a train in 1947 and never look...