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Marianne Dougherty

Marianne Dougherty is an award-winning writer and beauty editor who has appeared on Live in L.A., Lifetime’s New Attitudes, and Weekend Today. In 2001 Harper-Collins published Asian Beauty, which she wrote for celebrity makeup artist Margaret Kimura. Her freelance work has appeared in both trade and consumer magazines. In 2018 and again in 2022, she was a finalist for a Golden Quill Award for journalistic excellence. She resides in Santa Barbara, California, where she is on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. This is her first novel.

Titles by Marianne Dougherty

  • Dye a memoir of art, music, faith, family and hair color

    by Brad Johns with Marianne Dougherty

    • Released: September 2023
    • Genre: Memoirs

    Before Instagram or TikTok or Twitter, Brad Johns was one of the most famous hair colorists in the world with an opulent salon on Fifth Avenue in New York City. His clientele was a veritable “who’s who” of fabulous females, from beauty editors and celebrities to socialites and CEOs. Known for his buttery blondes and a groundbreaking technique called “chunking” that he created for model Christy Turlington, the poor kid from the projects in Pittsburgh was living the American Dream.

    As sparkling as his success was, Johns was also struggling with crippling depression and suicidal ideation that had begun in childhood. Growing up, music and his grandmother’s unconditional love had sustained him. Later he used drugs to keep the demons at bay. Then came an astonishing revelation that sparked a spiritual journey from darkness into light.

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  • What We Remember A Novel

    by Marianne Dougherty

    • Released: May 2023
    • Genre: Novels
    Bestselling author Mary Hogan calls What We Remember a “beautifully rendered novel.”

    As young wives and mothers, four women find comfort in friendship, and then life begins to unravel. In the aftermath of unbearable tragedy, Alice embarks on a spiritual journey that takes her to California, while Nina starts painting to work through her grief. Theresa is left to deal with the repercussions of a bitter divorce that has far-reaching consequences for both of her children. And Charlotte? She’s harboring a secret that could jeopardize the perfect life she has worked so hard to create.

    Twenty years later, when Charlotte is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she asks her daughter to find her old friends and arrange a reunion in Cape May before her memories are erased. Before the worst happened, they had spent two weeks there with their children, a watershed moment for all of them. Time and distance have kept them apart, but as they rekindle their friendship, remembering that they were their best selves when they were together, they find the peace that has eluded them for so long.

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