Stephanie Storey is the author of the stunning debut Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo. It has been translated into six languages and is in development as a feature film by Pioneer Pictures. Storey is also a TV producer of The Alec Baldwin Show on ABC, The Arsenio Hall Show for CBS, and the Emmy-nominated The Writers’ Room on Sundance. When not writing fiction or producing television, she can usually be found traveling the world with her husband—an actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer—in search of her next story.

Photograph by Paul Swepston

Also by Stephanie Storey

Oil and Marble

A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo Trade paperback / $16.99 US / $22.99 CAN (available now)

978-1-62872-906-1

“Tremendously entertaining and unapologetic in its artistic license.”—Maxwell Carter, The New York Times

From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. A virtual unknown, he wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Impoverished, shunned by his family, and working against an impossible deadline, he begins his feverish carving.

Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty-year-old whose career has peaked. His commissions are late; he’s losing patrons; he’s obsessed with his flying machine; his engineering designs disastrously fail; and he’s haunted by a woman he has seen in the market—a merchant’s wife, whom he is finally commissioned to paint. Her name is Lisa.