PENELOPE ROWLANDS - ARTICLES & ESSAYS

Some of the many articles and essays I've contributed to various periodicals

and websites over the length of my career:

A book just published in France outlines how the government appropriated the apartments of deported Jews during the German Occupation

Air Mail Weekly

A deep look into the famously staring Hans Holbein portraits of Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More at New York's Frick Collection

The American Scholar

In the midst of the pandemic, an outdated file led me into a precious, near-forgotten world

The American Scholar

December, 2020

AirMail Weekly

I headed to Chile to research a biography, but found myself in the midst of an uprising instead

The American Scholar

The story of Aaron Burr's exile in Europe -- and the extraordinary diary he kept in this period

The American Scholar

Designer Alessandra Branca's

new atelier by the Seine

ElleDecor

The story of quiche

-- and my amazing mother

Eat, Darling, Eat

On the outsized influence of an inherited chair

San Francisco Chronicle Magazine

On the big impact of a very small ad...

Columbia Journalism Review

A visit to the Maine house of

Sister Parish, American designer

Architectural Digest

Novelist, Essayist, Parisian:

A profile of Diane Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle Magazine