Nancy Linde

Background

Nancy Linde was born on December 21, 1949, in New York City, New York, United States. She is a daughter of Alfred Linde and Ruth Linde (maiden name Mandel).

Education

Nancy Linde received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the City University of New York in 1971. A year later she earned a Master of Arts in creative writing. From 1976 to 1978, Linde attended Rochester Institute of Technology.

Career

Nancy Linde started her career in 1974 at the College of New Rochelle where she served as an adjunct lecturer. From 1978 to 1979, she taught at Rutgers University. The same year when she joined the staff of the University, she also joined this of the College of Staten Island and had lectured there for seven years.

Nancy Linde has contributed poetry to publications for more than twenty years and has been on the board of directors of the Woodstock Writers Workshop in New York City since 1980. In 1988, Linde came back to the College of Staten Island. Her fiction work, the novel ‘The Orange Cat Bistro’, was published in 1996. It was the story about a novelist Claire who struggled to extricate her own life from that of her fictional character, a shy, eccentric, beautiful sculptor named Nevada.

Linde has contributed poems to different periodicals, including Buckle, Symposium, Sojourner, 13th Moon, Promethean, and Endymion. In addition to academics and writing, Nancy Linde tried her hand as a director of the 1969 movie ‘Arabesque’.

Achievements

• Nancy Linde is a talented author who managed to successfully combine teacher’s activity with writing and moviemaking.
  
  In 1970, Linde received a Poetry prize from the City University of New York.

Works

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  • The Orange Cat Bistro

    (The story about a soul searching of a novelist Claire)

    1996

Interests

• yoga, meditation

Connections

Nancy Linde married Stephan A. Khinoy in 1980. They divorced ten years later.

On March 26, 1997, Thomas M. Javaruski became the second husband of the writer.

Father:

Alfred Linde

Mother:

Ruth Linde

husband:

Thomas M. Javaruski

Ex-husband:

Stephan A. Khinoy