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Denny S. Bryce

Biography

Denny S. Bryce

Denny S. Bryce is an award-winning and bestselling author of historical fiction, including WILD WOMEN AND THE BLUES. She is also an adjunct professor in the MFA program at Drexel University, a book critic for NPR, and a member of the Historical Novel Society, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and Tall Poppy Writers. Currently, she resides in Savannah, Georgia.

Denny S. Bryce

Books by Denny S. Bryce

Can't We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
by Denny S. Bryce and Eliza Knight - Fiction, Historical Fiction

1952: Ella Fitzgerald is a renowned jazz singer whose only roadblock to longevity is society’s attitude toward women and race. Marilyn Monroe’s star is rising despite ongoing battles with movie studio bigwigs and boyfriends. When she needs help with her singing, she wants only the best --- and the best is the brilliant Ella Fitzgerald. But Ella isn’t a singing teacher and declines. Then the two women meet, and to everyone’s surprise but their own, they become fast friends. On the surface, what could they have in common? Yet each was underestimated by the men in their lives --- husbands, managers, hangers-on. And both were determined to gain. Each fought for professional independence and personal agency in a time when women were expected to surrender control to those same men.