Rebecca Wells

Background

Wells was born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana, where her family owned and ran a cotton farm.

Education

She attended Louisiana State University and, after graduating, the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she studied language and consciousness with Allen Ginsberg and Choyyam Trungapa Rinpoche, as well as acting, movement, and voice with members of The Living Theater. She then went to New York City, where she studied the Stanislavski Method of acting.

Career

In 1982 she moved to Seattle, Washington, making her home on Bainbridge Island. She currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Wells" first book, Little Altars Everywhere, (1992) recounts the multi-layered saga of the turbulent Walker family in Thornton, Louisiana, from the 1960s to the present and introduces the characters Siddalee Walker, her mother Viviane, and her mother"s best friends, the Ya-Yas, whose stories continue in Wells" other books

Her second novel, explores Siddalee"s troubled relationship with her mother, and the deeper understanding she gains when her mother sends her the "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," a scrapbook chronicling the girlhood adventures of Vivi and her three best friends.

lieutenant was adapted for the 2002 film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film) starring Sandra Bullock as Siddalee Walker and Ellen Burstyn as her mother Vivi. Wells" third novel, Ya-Yas in Bloom, (2005) reveals the roots of the friendship of the Ya-Ya sisterhood in the 1930s.

Ya-Yas in Bloom reached the #3 spot on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists A playwright and actor before she began writing fiction, Wells is known for her one-woman show, Splittin’ Hairs, and her play, Gloria Duplex, about a French Quarter erotic dancer who sees the face of God in a disco ball, which was called “one of the glories of the decade” by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Achievements

• Rebecca Wells has been listed as a reputable Lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Membership

Member American Bar Association, National Organization for Women (secretary, treasurer Akron chapter 1982-1984, vice president Akron chapter 1985-1987, president Akron chapter 1988-1990), Ohio State Bar Association.

Connections

Married George Anthony Wells. Children: Michael, Brian.

Father:

Kevin Knight

Mother:

Theresa Knight

Spouse:

George Anthony Wells

child:

Michael Wells

child:

Brian Wells