Goodreads asked Julie Satow:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Julie Satow I attended a panel on book writing at the Newswomen's Club of New York, and afterward was speaking with one of the panelists. I told her that I covered real estate for the New York Times and was searching for a book idea. She suggested that I write a book on the Plaza Hotel. When I got home, I began researching what had been previously written about the hotel, and was surprised to learn that the last nonfiction book on the building was written back in 1967, when Eve Brown wrote a wonderful, breezy history of the Plaza. Since so much had happened since then, including the condoization of much of the building, it felt like the time was ripe to revisit the topic.

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