Coming Soon: Interview with Best-Selling Author Karen Abbott

Check back next month for an interview with best-selling author Karen Abbott. Abbott's first nonfiction book, Sin in the Second City chronicled the rise and fall of the notorious Levee District in Chicago. The interview will post December 28, 2010.

Gypsy Rose Lee poses at her desk

For her second book, American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare, Abbott chose Gypsy Rose Lee as her subject. This new biography, of the show business legend, chronicles her humble beginnings from playing second fiddle to her pretty baby sister to her rise and eventual triumph as the queen of burlesque.