Nancy Bilyeau
Nancy Bilyeau, a former staff editor at *Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone*, and *InStyle*, has written a trilogy of historical thrillers for Touchstone Books.
Articles by Nancy Bilyeau:
Blanche Blackwell, the Jamaican heiress who was Ian Fleming’s lover, was far more substantial than a Bond Girl
From a brief romance with Carrie Fisher to a face-scarring auto accident, “Star Wars” wholesome hero Mark Hamill has had a few secrets
In the Bond films, Jack Lord wanted to be not a sidekick but a partner to Sean Connery, who the press mocked as an ex-coffin polisher
“Exceptional” excavation of two 18th Dynasty tombs spurs hopes in Egypt that the nation’s tourism industry could revive
Married dad Hugh Hefner launched “Playboy” magazine in his Chicago kitchen at age 27
In “Dr. No,” Jack Lord won praise as a suave and smart CIA agent, but he bowed out of Bond series because he wanted Felix Leiter and James Bond to be equals
How scene stealer Steve McQueen tried to make sure all eyes would be on him in “The Magnificent Seven” and not Yul Brynner
Babylonians figured out trigonometry 3,700 years ago, and their “simpler” math techniques could help students today
John Lennon’s diaries, metal-rimmed eyeglasses, and cigarette case, stolen from Yoko Ono in NYC, are recovered by police in Germany
A breakthrough discovery made on parchment-damage cause, thanks to a 13th century document in Vatican Secret Archives
