Now Everyone Will Know

by Maggie Kneip

Overview

After a fairy-tale courtship in 1980s New York City, Maggie's young marriage shatters when her "perfect" husband--a star editor at The Wall Street Journal--is diagnosed with and dies of AIDS, leaving her with two young children in a city electrified by paranoia about the new epidemic. Devastated by this betrayal, Maggie struggles to protect herself and her children from stigma, keeping the circumstances of her husband's death a secret for nearly twenty-five years. It is only when a journey of self-discovery aligns with her children's coming of age and a new world of sexual tolerance that she can finally embrace the truth and set herself free.

With a foreword written by Laura Landro, an assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, and an afterword by "Today" show psychologist Dr. Dale Atkins, Now Everyone Will Know is an honest, unflinching look at the damaging nature of family secrets and an inspiring call to embrace every truth--the good, the bad, the ugly--that makes us who we are.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157725945
Publisher:	Garden Street Books
Publication date:	11/12/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	400 KB

About the Author

Maggie Kneip is a veteran of the publishing industry, with a career spanning more than two decades in publicity and marketing at Bertelsmann, Scholastic Inc., and Abrams Books. She has also performed as a singer at such Manhattan clubs as the Laurie Beechman Theatre and the Metropolitan Room. Maggie is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and has a master of fine arts in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Learn more about her at www.maggiekneip.com.

Laura Landro (foreword) is an assistant managing editor for The Wall Street Journal and writes frequently on health care, including a column entitled “The Informed Patient.” She is also the author of Survivor: Taking Charge of Your Fight Against Cancer.

Dale V. Atkins, PhD, (afterword) widely known as “Dr. Dale,” is a licensed psychologist, popular keynote speaker, and author of six books and numerous chapters on social and relationship issues. She is a frequent commentator on NBC’s Today show and CNN’s Headline News, and has been an on-screen expert for several award-winning documentaries and news programs. She has a private psychology practice in New York City and can be found at www.drdaleatkins.com.

Editorial Reviews

I first met Maggie Kneip when she was nine months pregnant with her second child. Less than a year later, her husband, John, would die of AIDS. In the wake of this unspeakable trauma, I watched Maggie bravely, tirelessly rebuild her life and raise two extraordinary kids. Familiar as I was with her story, nothing prepared me for the transcendent power of Now Everyone Will Know.

actor and director - Tony Goldwyn

This is a book I just inhaled. I could not put it down. Maggie Kneip is a courageous and beautiful writer, willing to bare all the painful chapters in her life. There is something universal in her story. It will resonate with every woman who has something to hide-and that is most of us, myself included.

news reporter, WPIX-TV New York - Magee Hickey

Maggie Kneip was one of this country's hidden women: an AIDS widow who kept her husband's deadly secret for more than two decades to protect her children from stigma. Now she opens up for the first time in this stunning, beautifully written, and important book. Now Everyone Will Know is a heartbreaking yet ultimately triumphant tale of love, loss, betrayal--and redemption.

journalist, editor, and co-author of Strings Attached - Joanne Lipman

Now Everyone Will Know is by turns surprising, heartbreaking, inspiring, and funny. Maggie Kneip's story of love, loss, and betrayal will move you and haunt you. Like Isabel Gillies and Marco Roth, Kneip writes of the secrets families keep, and the wreckage such secrets can cause. This is an important book, not just because it's a fascinating memoir, but because it's a powerful historical document about the devastating effects of the AIDS crisis and a moving meditation on the wages of love.

author of The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything - Melissa Kirsch

I helped take care of John Andrew, my brilliant boss at The Wall Street Journal, at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, a barely remembered moment marked by fear and stigma and certain death. John died with extraordinary speed, leaving most unsaid. Now close to three decades later, his widow, Maggie Kneip, has recaptured John's unique voice, while also chronicling, with honesty and courage, her struggle to accept the enduring mystery at the core of their relationship.

journalist - Alix M. Freedman