Joan Martelli

About The Author

Joan Martelli is a multiple-award-winning American storyteller, investigative journalist, and author. Her work, ranging from political analysis, environmental exposés, human rights stories, and profiles, has taken her around the world and appeared on various networks, including ABC, CBS, and PBS. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a  Harvard Neiman Fellow.  Born in New York, she is the author of The Law of Storms and now lives with her husband in Europe, splitting time between their home in Amsterdam and a rural farmhouse in France.

Books by Joan Martelli

The Widow Van Gogh

Tragedy, Triumph, and the Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh a Legend: A Life of Johanna van Gogh

By Joan Martelli
On a stormy summer night in 1891, a young Dutch widow left her home and went for a walk outside alone in the rain. It was the anniversary of the death of her brother-in-law, Vincent van Gogh, and she was at the beginning of an improbable decades-long journey that would transform the ridiculed and...
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