Actress Victoria Rowell - SECRETS OF A SOAP OPERA DIVA | Octavia Books | New Orleans, Louisiana

Start: 05/07/2010 6:00 pm

End: 05/07/2010 7:30 pm

Please join us for a champagne toast to actress Victoria Rowell (Drucilla from "The Young and the Restless") who is returning to Octavia Books for to read from and sign her new novel, SECRETS OF A SOAP OPERA DIVA.

At age eight, Victoria Rowell won a Ford Foundation grant to study ballet and later went on to train and dance professionally under the auspices of the American Ballet Theatre, Twyla Tharp Workshop, and the Juilliard School before becoming an actress. She is the founder of the Rowell Foster Children Positive Plan, which provides scholarships in thearts and education to foster youth, and serves as national spokespersonfor the Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services. Rowell is an award-winning actress and veteran of many acclaimed feature films and several television series, including eight seasons on "Diagnosis Murder," and starred for thirteen years as Drucilla Winterson CBS's #1 daytime drama "The Young and the Restless."

Victoria Rowell first came to Octavia Books in 2007 for the New Orleans launch of THE WOMEN WHO RAISED ME, her memoir of being raised in foster homes and a tribute to the women who lifted her up in marvelous and distinctive ways.