Cecelia Tichi is the author of the “Val and Roddy DeVere Gilded Series,” mystery crime novels that pulse with turn-of-the-century American life…and death.

An award-winning author and Professor of English and American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University, her nonfiction and fiction books have focused on the decades of America's industrial titans, the "Queens" of Society and the U.S. Gilded Age. She enjoys membership and posting in Facebook’s The Gilded Age Society.

For more about Cecelia, visit her website and her Wikipedia page and follow her on Facebook.

In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about why she set her novels in the Gilded Age time period and what inspired her to create the Val DeVere character.