Did you know that Sylvia Plath stayed in a famous all-female hotel with other budding authors to work a NYC internship at a magazine? Many novelists stayed at the Barbizon, like Meg Wolitzer and Joan Didion, launching their author careers in the 20th century. Prior to Paulina Bren’s book “The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free,” there was not much information about the history of the hotel. In this interview, Paulina explores why she decided to research the hotel in the first place and the challenges that she was faced with in her process.