Kristin Beall Ludecke recently collaborated with award-winning biographer James A. Drake to write Lily Pons; A Centennial Portrait, published by Amadeus Press. Together with family, she owns the Lily Pons Collection, which includes the soprano's historic archives complete with contracts, clippings, scrapbook, photographs & personal effects including her steamer trunk and a number of costumes, two of which are pictured here.Kristin is available for book signings, lectures and recitals detailing the life and career of Lily Pons, one of the 10 most famous women in the 1940s and one of the most colorful personalities to grace both the Operatic stage and Silver Screen.