A Memoir · By Elisabeth Hitz
The Hitz Inheritance is a memoir by the granddaughter of the missing heiress. It follows two investigations at once: the one the newspapers ran in 1965, and the one the author began in 2014 when she found the box of clippings her family had kept for half a century. The manuscript is written and in final edit.
From The Opening Pages
It began with a cardboard box.
The box was heavier than I expected. I pulled it out and set it on my mother’s bed, and the dust that came off it made me sneeze. … My grandmother. Anna Maria.
But here, in this box, she was someone else entirely. She was young and unflinching, on the front page of an international scandal. She was famous. And she was furious.
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The Author
Elisabeth Hitz is Anna Maria's granddaughter. She grew up inside the story, in the languages it happened in: she works in English, Spanish, German, French and Italian, the four languages of the archive and one more. She began investigating the case at NYU in 2014 and has spent the years since assembling what the family kept: the clippings, the court papers, the letters, the photographs.
She is the sole rights holder. Every fact in the book traces to a document in the archive or to the people who lived it.
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