Authors C.M. Mayo and Pam Jenoff were interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Both C.M. Mayo and Pam Jenoff have recently published new fiction novels based on historical events. Mayo’s The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is based on the true story of the half-American adopted son of Emperor Maximillian during the short-lived 2nd Empire in Mexico. Jenoff’s Almost Home, while set in the present, explores a shameful secret from World War II.



• C.M. Mayo is a writer and translator who divides her time between Mexico City and the Washington D.C. area where she is an instructor at the Bethesda Writer’s Center. Her other books include Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, a portrait of Mexico inthe fiction and literary prose of 24 Mexican writers.



• Mayo has won three Lowell Travel Journalism Awards and residencies at a number of writer’s colonies including Yaddo, the McDowell Colony and at present The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.



• Jenoff is the author of The Kommandant's Girl, which was an international bestseller and nominated for a Quill award, The Diplomat's Wife and, most recently, Almost Home.



• Born in Maryland and raised outside Philadelphia, Jenoff attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University in England. She has worked as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Army and as a State Department officer in Krakow, Poland. She left the Foreign Service in 1998 to attend law school at the University of Pennsylvania and is now employed as an attorney in Philadelphia.



• C.M. Mayo's Web site



• The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire



• Pam Jenoff's Web site