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Donna's Appearance on PrimeTime Live

I hope you had a chance to tune in to see Diane Sawyer of ABC News interview Donna Woolfolk Cross, author of Pope Joan, about the book, her research and more.  Believers and non-believers alike are fascinated by the story of La Papesse, the female pope, who was Joan. 

If you missed it, or if you'd like to see it again, link here to purchase a recorded version.

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Pope Joan Book News!   

New Publisher - New Book!

A new edition of Pope Joan is coming from Three Rivers Press, with new material, corrections and additions, an updated "Author's Note" that includes new research on Joan, and a list of "Best of the Best" Reading Group questions, formulated from Donna's many years of chatting with book groups.

Corresponding with release of the new edition of Pope Joan will be an e-book version, too.

To order the new Three Rivers press edition, link here.

Pope Joan - Three Rivers Press
The new Three Rivers Press edition of Pope Joan sports an updated cover, too.

Pope Joan Is Now an Audio Book!
April 2010

Learn more about the development of the audio version of Pope Joan, as read by the wonderfully talented voice artist Barbara Rosenblatt for Recorded Books. 

Want to purchase this new Recorded Books version?  Link here.





Pope Joan Movie News!      (updated October 2009)

October 2009

Donna is in Berlin, Germany, ready to attend the world premier of the Pope Joan movie which will take place Monday, October 19th!

The US premiere is still to be determined.

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Pope Joan has finished filming! It's now in post-production (editing). The movie was filmed in Germany and Morocco--yes, Morocco! For it's impossible to film ninth-century Rome in the city that exists today, so Constantin recreated it in the sands of Ouarzazate. Johanna Wokalek is brilliant as Joan, as is David Wenham as Gerold, and John Goodman as Pope Sergius.

For more information on the movie, including "insider" gossip from Donna, who was on the set in both countries, sign up for email updates, issued about once each month.
Did You Know?
Donna was one of the first authors to donate her time to book reading groups by setting up speakerphone chats with them about Pope JoanLink here to read a New York times article.
Pope Joan was a selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs.
The novel has been translated into 31 different languages, and is an international bestseller.
In Germany, Pope Joan was #1 on the bestseller list for 3 years. It is now #1 on the list of longterm German bestsellers.

You may also be interested in this list of Frequently Asked Questions.

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