Mary Calvi

MARY CALVI is a 16-time New York Emmy award-winning journalist, National Anchor of Inside Edition Weekend, News Anchor at WCBS-TV New York City. Her curiosity as a journalist spurred her research into women who history forgot. Her in-depth research for her debut novel, DEAR GEORGE, DEAR MARY: A NOVEL OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S FIRST LOVE, is the basis of a Smithsonian Channel documentary showing unrequited love may have sparked the flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution. Her second novel, IF A POEM COULD LIVE AND BREATHE: A NOVEL OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S FIRST LOVE, is based on love letters from the Gilded Age to and from Roosevelt and his first love, Alice Lee. Many of these letters have never been published and were long believed destroyed.