Reggie Nadelson Explained

Reggie Nadelson is an American novelist, known for writing mystery novels.^[1]

Early life

She was born and raised in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York. After graduating from City and Country School and Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village, she majored in English at Vassar College, and then earned a graduate degree in journalism at Stanford.^[2] Nadelson was raised in a secular Jewish family and describes herself as such today.^[3] She has reported on secular Jewish culture in America for the BBC radio show, From Our Own Correspondent.^[4]

Career

She migrated to London for The Guardian newspaper, and subsequently The Independent. She also began writing documentaries for the BBC.^[5] 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.^[6]

Tom Hanks has optioned Nadelson's Dean Reed biography Comrade Rockstar and is planning to produce a movie on Reed's life.^[7]

Personal life

She spends her time living in both Manhattan and London.

Bibliography

The Artie Cohen series

• 1995 Red Mercury Blues (also published as Red Hot Blues)
• 1997 Hot Poppies
• 1999 Bloody London
• 2002 Sex Dolls (also published as Skin Trade)
• 2004 Disturbed Earth
• 2005 Red Hook
• 2006 Fresh Kills
• 2009 Londongrad
• 2010 Blood Count

Other novels

• Somebody Else (2003)
• Manhattan 62 (2014)

Non-fiction

• (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 'N' Roll to the Soviet Union)
• (2017) See also Balthazar

References

• News: Crime - On the waterfront (review) . . Helena Kennedy . October 29, 2005.
• News: Entertainment: Comrade Rockstar by Reggie Nadelson (review) . . Adam Sweeting . Adam Sweeting . November 21, 2004.
• News: Friday Book: Sex and drugs and nuclear weapons; Sex Dolls by Reggie Nadelson. . Matthew J. . Reisz . April 5, 2002.

External links

• Official Website
• Artie Cohen Website
• Reggie Nadelson in conversation with Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2010
• 2011 Interview in Shotsmag Ezine

Notes and References

1. Faber & Faber http://www.faber.co.uk/author/reggie-nadelson/
2. Reggie Nadelson: 'about me' Web site: Reggie Nadelson: Author, journalist, filmmaker . 2012-02-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120224070624/http://www.reggienadelson.com/reggie.html . 2012-02-24 .
3. News: Mastering the Pork Roast . Reggie Nadelson's Website . Reggie Nadelson . 2009.
4. News: New Yorkers stock up for Passover . BBC . Reggie Nadelson . 2012-03-31.
5. BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2236495.stm
6. Web site: Reggie Nadelson: Author, journalist, filmmaker . 2012-02-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120224070639/http://www.reggienadelson.com/artie.html . 2012-02-24 .
7. News: An American who gyrated to a Communist beat . The New York Times / International Herald Tribune . Thomas Mallon . July 7, 2006.