“Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the late wife of the late John F. Kennedy Jr., was a real person,” writes Lea Carpenter in AIR MAIL. “But any truth about her was eclipsed by the mythmaking that continues to obscure the family into which she married.” Carpenter was reviewing Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, a new biography by Elizabeth Beller that aims to replace mythmaking and obscurity with truth and clarity. And that it does. We come to know Bessette-Kennedy through scrupulous research, through primary sources, and through the eyes and hearts of the people who knew her—as opposed to the tabloid coverage upon which her former identity was based. In other words, Upon a Time does the overdue work of portraying Bessette-Kenndy through fact instead of fiction. At the Coffee House Club, Beller will be joined by her husband, the author Thomas Beller, to discuss and read from her revealing book. —Jack Sullivan