Reggie Nadelson

Background

She was born and raised in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New New York Nadelson was born into a secular Jewish family and describes herself as such today.

Education

After leaving local City and Country School and Elisabeth Irwin High School, she went to Vassar College, where she majored in English, and attended Stanford for her graduate degree in journalism.

Career

She has presented several journalists report on secular Jewish culture in America including for British Broadcasting Corporation radio show, From Our Own Correspondent. She migrated to London for The Guardian newspaper, and subsequently The Independent. She also began writing documentaries for the British Broadcasting Corporation. She has also contributed to the United States magazine Vogue, as well as several other London-based newspapers and magazines.

In 1995, she created Artie Cohen, a Russian-born, New York City cop around whom most of her novels would be based.

Tom Hanks has optioned Nadelson"s Dean Reed biography Comrade Rockstar and is planning to produce a movie on Reed"s life. She spends her time living in both Manhattan and London.

Who is Angela Davis?: The Biography of a Revolutionary (1972) See Angela Davis. Comrade Rockstar (1991) (also published as Comrade Rockstar: The Life and Mystery of Dean Reed, the All-American Boy Who Brought Rock "North" Roll to the Soviet Union).

Works

• Other Work

  • Other novels Somebody Else (2003).