Idanna Pucci

About The Author

Idanna Pucci is the author of The Lady of Sing Sing; The World Odyssey of a Balinese Prince; The Epic of Life, a classic on Balinese culture; Brazza in Congo: A Life and Legacy, the inspiration for her award-winning documentary, Black Africa White Marble which sheds light on Central Africa’s colonial past and its troubled present. She also produced Talk Radio Tehran about women who fulfill their aspirations in Iran’s gender-apartheid. Aside from her mother tongue, Italian, she is fluent in English, French, and Bahasa Indonesia. With her husband, Terence Ward, she divides her time between her hometown of Florence in Italy, and New York.

Books by Idanna Pucci

The Lady of Sing Sing

An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age

By Idanna Pucci
This “gripping social history” (Publishers Weekly), with all the passion and pathos of a classic opera, chronicles the riveting first campaign against the death penalty waged in 1895 by American pioneer activist, Cora Slocomb, Countess of Brazzà, to save the life of a twenty-year-old il...
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