Pamela Moore

Pamela Moore is an American singer and songwriter, mixing hard rock, pop and electronica, and in more recent years has delved into heavy metal. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

History

Born and raised in Seattle, Moore was introduced to theater at a young age and developed a passion for performing on stage. She studied with the music program in high school and taught herself how to play steel-string acoustic guitar and piano.

In the early eighties, Moore released her two first albums, Take a Look and You Won't Find Me There. Both albums were critically acclaimed, but record label problems put an early end to her budding career. However, in 1988, Moore was tapped to be the voice of Sister Mary on Queensrÿche's concept album Operation: Mindcrime. It became a commercial success, and as a result started performing live with them. In the late 1990s, she became the singer for the band Radar and relocated to New York to record their 2000 debut album, R.P.M. After Radar disbanded in 2001, Moore moved back to Seattle.

Pamela Moore (author)

Pamela Moore (September 22, 1937 – June 7, 1964) was an American writer educated at Rosemary Hall and Barnard College. Her first book, Chocolates for Breakfast, was published when she was 18 and became an international bestseller. At the time, it was often associated with Bonjour Tristesse, a novel published two years earlier in France by 18-year-old Françoise Sagan. Since its publication in 1956, Chocolates for Breakfast appeared in 11 languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Swedish, and German. According to the Bantam paperback edition, the book went through 11 printings in the U.S. and sold over one million copies.

Chocolates for Breakfast was republished in paperback and e-book editions in June 2013, with a new foreword by author Emma Straub.

Chocolates for Breakfast

Chocolates for Breakfast gained notoriety for its frank depiction of sexuality at a time when 18-year-old girls were not expected to read about such topics, let alone write about them. The protagonist is a young girl named Courtney, coming of age as her parents divorce, splitting her time between two coasts. Her father is a member of the genteel New York publishing world, while her mother pursues a fading acting career in Hollywood. The book portrays a privileged and jaded set who drink heavily and pride themselves on their sexual sophistication. After an unrequited crush on one of her boarding-school teachers leads to heartbreak, Courtney beds a bisexual Hollywood actor and a dissolute European aristocrat living out of a New York hotel. As Robert Clurman noted in The New York Times Book Review "...not very long ago, it would have been regarded as shocking to find girls in their teens reading the kind of books they’re now writing.” The book also includes discussion of homosexuality, alcoholism, gender roles and sexual exploration that was, for the era, uncommon.