Lucy Ridolphi’s debut book, All the Beautiful Things, was inspired by growing up in the 1960s in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a time of sweeping change in the country, and Montgomery, the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement, was no exception. From an early age, Lucy loved reading and writing. Her love of storytelling led Lucy to an interest in film and screenwriting, and she had two screenplays place in the Academy of Motion Picture’s Arts and Sciences Nicholls Fellowships.

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She became involved in the Sundance Film Festival, first as a volunteer, then as a Filmmaker Liaison, and then eventually as the Marketing and Public Relations Manager at Sundance Resort. While working at Sundance, she was inspired by the myriad of authors featured at Sundance’s Tree Room Author Series and longed to immerse herself in that kind of literary project. So, she returned to her Alabama roots and discovered her voice as an author. The result is All the Beautiful Things, a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, where a young girl must choose whether to bring a prominent judge to justice for murder or to stay true to his family in order to keep the love of his son.