NINA VIDA
BIO
Nina Vida's writing career began when her children went off to college and she enrolled in the University Without Walls program at California State University Dominguez Hills to pursue a long-deferred degree in English. One of the requirements of the degree was a semester of creative writing. Nina, who had never written fiction before, decided to write a story about her 38-year-old sister's open-heart surgery. The professor said it brought her to tears. Nina's husband had been a Navy journalist in the Korean War, and when he read the story he said he thought Nina had the makings of a writer and should try her hand at a novel. That was in 1980. Since then Nina has had seven novels published. The seventh novel, The Texicans, was published by Soho Press.
She is a native born Californian, lives in Huntington Beach and is a well known collector of antique Asian porcelain.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
NINA VIDA has just completed her eighth novel, tentatively titled "Lilli." Lilli Chernofsky, a sheltered seventeen-year-old Jewish girl is caught in the maelstrom of the Second World War. Her flight from Kovno, Lithuania to Shanghai and her adoption of abandoned Jewish children along the way is the heartbeat of the novel, but it is Lilli's heroic struggle to care for those children -- her sale of herself to a Chinese gangster and her subsequent rise in the dangerous world of the Shanghai black market -- that powers the novel.
AVAILABLE FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
NINA VIDA can be contacted directly or through her agent. She is available to speak to writers' clubs, conferences and book clubs. Go to "Contacts".NINA VIDA AT WORK
NINA VIDA's emphasis in her fiction is in the depiction of ordinary people who when placed in extraordinary situations reveal character that delights as well as dismays, but which always surprises. Most of her books have involved research and travel and in some cases are based on actual events, but history takes a back seat to story telling and vibrant characterization, which are the hallmarks of her fiction.
THE TEXICANS AUDIO
PERFORMED BY GEORGE GUIDALL
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