Patricia Beard is the author of 11 nonfiction books, one novel and hundreds of magazine articles. A former features editor of Town & Country and Mirabella, and former contributing editor of ELLE, FACE THE MUSIC is her first collaboration.

Books by Patricia Beard

Good Daughters

by Patricia Beard

After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905

by Patricia Beard

After the Ball is the story of James Hazen Hyde, who inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899 when he was 23, and was forced out five years later, in the wake of a lavish ball.