Op-Eds and Media
By the Author
Recorded Video Interview: Mindy Todd with the Brewster Ladies Library
Author Essay:
The Creative Relationship Between Writers and Visual Artists
LitHub
Author Op-Ed: A New Window Into the Extraordinary Life of Sally Hemings
The Washington Post
Author Op-Ed: TWO PATHS: The Strange and Ironic Fates of Jefferson’s Daughters
- The Daily Beast
June 1, 2021 Sally Cabot Gunning talks about her latest work of historical fiction Painting the Light with Mindy Todd, sponsored by the Brewster Ladies Library. Special guests included. Scroll down to the 6-1-2021 video.
July 29, 2021 Sally Cabot Gunning writes about her favorite historical novels featuring visual artists, a few thoughts on writers who paint and painters who write, and how she did both while writing Painting the Light. Read more>>
March 17, 2017 Having spent the past five years immersed in research on the Jefferson and Hemings families for two historical novels I wrote, I was thrilled to learn that Sally Hemings’s room at Monticello will be reopened.
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September 17, 2016 Martha Jefferson was Virginia elite. Her half-sister Harriet, though seven-eighths white, was deemed a slave at birth. No one could have predicted their fates. Read more >>
Author Op-Ed: History Made Real
You Must Read This - NPR
April 18, 2008 History Made Real in 'April Morning' Maybe you knew me — I was that pale, skinny kid with the dark circles under her eyes who ran off the school bus, grabbed a book, went into her bedroom and locked the door. But before you start putting me in the same crate with the eggheads, I'd better mention it wasn't any math or history book I grabbed, it was a Hardy Boys or a Nancy Drew... Read more >>
In the Media
Radio Interview: "Painting the Light" on The Point with Mindy Todd
- NPR's WCAI
Magazine Interview:
"The Man Behind the Myth"
- Virginia Living Magazine
May 27, 2021 Sally Cabot Gunning talks about her latest work of historical fiction Painting the Light with Mindy Todd of WCAI. Her new novel takes place on Martha’s Vineyard. Scroll down to May 27, 2021.
November 29, 2016 As a college student, Sally Cabot Gunning worked in The Drummer Boy Museum in Brewster, Massachusetts, which focused on the American Revolution. Read more >>
October 2016 Full length video of Sally Cabot Gunning discussing her new book, Monticello. Click to watch >>
Author Talk: Monticello
- Brewster Ladies Library
September 15, 2016 WCAI's Mindy Todd speaks with Cape Cod author Sally Cabot Gunning in our Woods Hole studios. She's written a historical novel about the life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughter titled Monticello. Listen >>
Radio Interview: "Monticello" on The Point with Mindy Todd
- NPR's WCAI
Newspaper Interview:
"Fact and Fictions"
-Boston Globe
August 30, 2009 Sally Gunning sets her novels in familiar, favored places that bear the imprint of the town’s history. Read the article >>
Radio interview: "Writers on Writing"
- WUCI University of California
May 21, 2008 An interview for the University of California WUCI "Writers on Writing" radio program.