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My Name Is Geraldine

Fate and a fierce appetite for success gave Geraldine a leg up in a world where men approached women as sex objects and where this woman, with exquisitely legitimate reasons to kick ass, built a career by doing a job held only by the male of our species until then.

Her memoir tells of friends, lovers, and the amazing people she met in all parts of the world. Her core message is one of success and power, above and beyond the ordinary, if one takes a chance on the unknown path.

She was young, beautiful, smart, and sassy. A sophisticate of a changing world order of the 1960s. She expected just rewards for her labor. Many times over, Geraldine proved her worth with canny performances, overcoming the existing stereotype of a woman working in a man’s world.

Without using female charms as a crutch, she surged forward with her quick wit and voracious appetite for excellence. She is confident, urbane and comfortable in any situation. Yes. There is love, disappointment, drama, and trauma in this life.

Her story will appeal to women of all ages, and the men who comfort and confound them.


Geraldine Sakall

Geraldine Sakall is a child of European immigrants and reared in the Midwest. She thrived in schools for exceptional students in music and art.

Geraldine’s voice is distinctive and she expresses herself directly to the reader as if she were speaking across a dinner table. Her life has been one where she became producer, director, and star. Her stories show her passion for her career.

Independence, excellence, timely performance, and attention to detail have always been her watermark. Early on she illustrated books for noted authors, then her interests developed into industrial design, modeling, and corporate interior design. Self-employed, throughout her career she garnered the design work for numerous Fortune 500 corporations, always receiving accolades from her clients and critical rave reviews.


Austin Macauley Publishers