Background
Wendy Gimbel was born in New York City, New York, United States. She made many childhood visits to the family of her paternal grandmother in pre-Castro Cuba.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edith-Wharton-Orphancy-Survival-Dissertations/dp/0275911721/?tag=prabook0b-20
1984
(A fascinating, powerfully evocative account of four gener...)
A fascinating, powerfully evocative account of four generations of Cuban women: Naty Revuelta, born in 1925, a socialite during the Batista era, who became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution; Naty's mother, an unregenerate reactionary, and Naty's two daughters, one of whom is the illegitimate and unacknowledged child of Castro. Each of the women's lives is shaped by a part of the island's terrible and poignant contemporary history, and together they weave a tapestry - at once intimate and revelatory - of Cuba in our century.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Havana-Dreams-Story-Wendy-Gimbel/dp/1860494625/?tag=prabook0b-20
1998
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Havana-Dreams-Story-Cuban-Family/dp/147088903X/?tag=prabook0b-20
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eva-sue-figlie-Gimbel-wendy/dp/8820030306/?tag=prabook0b-20
Wendy Gimbel was born in New York City, New York, United States. She made many childhood visits to the family of her paternal grandmother in pre-Castro Cuba.
Wendy received a Ph.D. in English literature.
Wendy has written about books for The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Parnassus, Vogue, and Mirabella, among other publications. Gimbel is the author of two books. Edith Wharton: Orphancy and Survival is a volume in the Praeger series Landmark Dissertations in Women’s Lives. Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba examines twentieth-century Cuba through the eyes of four generations of women in the same Havana family; it was chosen as one of the New York Times Notable Books of 1998. For many years, Gimbel served on the New York Public Library’s Council of Conservators. Currently, she is on the Boards of Parnassus: Poetry in Review and the Cuban Artists Fund. She joined the PEN America Board in 2009.
(A fascinating, powerfully evocative account of four gener...)
1998Wendy has two grown sons and lives with her husband in New York City.
