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 that she should try her hand at a book. That was in 1980. Nina's seventh novel, The Texicans, was published by Soho Press in October 2006.
Author Photo: by: Nancy Nimmons

BOOKS BY NINA VIDA:

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

SCAM, fiction, 1984
Macmillian, cloth, 1984
Paperjacks paperback, 1985

RETURN FROM DARKNESS, fiction
Warner Books, cloth, 1986
Warner Books paperback, 1987
Hebrew edition, M. Mizrahi Publishing House, cloth, 1988
U.K. editions renamed FLIGHT FROM BARCELONA Judy Piatkus, Ltd., cloth, 1986
Magna Print Books, cloth, Large Print, 1988
Book Club Associates Selection, U.K. 1988

MAXIMILIAN'S GARDEN, fiction
Bantam Books, cloth, 1990
Bantam Books, paperback, 1990
Spanish edition, Editorial Diana, paperback, 1992
English reprint, Next Century Books, 2004

GOODBYE, SAIGON, fiction
Crown Publishers, Inc., cloth, 1994
Fawcett, paperback, 1995
Danish edition, Wangels Forlag, cloth and paperback, 1996
Hebrew edition, Noga, paperback, 1996
Japanese edition, Kodansha, paperback, 1997
Norwegian edition, J. W. Cappelens, cloth and paperback, 1995
German edition, Wilhelm Heyne, cloth and paperback, 1996
Dutch edition, Luitingh-Sijthoff, paperback, 1996
Audio, Dove Books, 1995
Optioned for motion picture by Richard Zanuck Company & 20th Century Fox

BETWEEN SISTERS, fiction
Crown Publishers, Inc., cloth, 1996
Danish edition, Wangels-Forlag, 1997
Audio, Dove Books, 1996

THE END OF MARRIAGE, fiction
Simon & Schuster, cloth, 2002
Polish edition, 2004

THE TEXICANS, fiction
Soho Press, cloth, October, 2006
Trade paperback scheduled for October 2007
Audio recorded by Recorded Books, LLC; CD and cassette; narrated by George Guidall.

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