Robert Eversz Explained

Robert Eversz
Birth Name:Robert LcLeod Eversz
Birth Date:22 April 1954
Birth Place:Great Falls, Montana, U.S.
Nationality:American
Education:University of California, Santa Cruz (BA)
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (MFA)

Robert McLeod Eversz (born April 22, 1954) is an American fiction writer, screenwriter, and educator. The author of the Nina Zero novels, he is a co-founder of the Prague Summer Program for writers, a study abroad program for creative writers in the English language.

Life

Robert Eversz was born in Great Falls, Montana. He received his BA at the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by his MFA at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Eversz co-founded the Prague Summer Program, and occupies a seat on the permanent faculty. He served as visiting professor of English at Western Michigan University in 2005 and 2006, and as writer-in-residence in 2007. In 2007, he was the finalists’ judge for the AWP Award Series in the Novel.[1] He also teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.[2]

Literary work

Eversz is best known as the author of the award winning[3] [4] [5] series of crime novels featuring the paparazza Nina Zero, set in Southern California. The first novel in the series, Shooting Elvis, was Oslo Aftenposten’s Crime Novel of the Year in 1997,[6] and the Best Humorous Crime Novel of 1996 in The Guardian (awarded by Val McDermid).[7] The next in the series, Killing Paparazzi, was a The Washington Post Book World Rave in 2001. The Washington Post has written favorable reviews for the following titles in the series.[8] [9] [10] His novels have been translated into fifteen languages.

His expatriate novel, Gypsy Hearts, is set in Prague of the 1990s.

Selected bibliography

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AWP: Page Not Found. www.awpwriter.org.
  2. http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/instructors.php?recordID=352 UCLA Extension Writers Program profile
  3. http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Awards/Nero_Awards.html Nero Awards
  4. http://januarymagazine.com/features/bestof06crime.html Feature | Best of Crime Fiction 2006
  5. Web site: Mystery of the month - Column | BookPage.
  6. Web site: Aftenposten - 1997-03-19. eavis.aftenposten.no.
  7. Web site: Recensioni vere dei migliori prodotti naturali – BOSSFIGHT.CO. bossfight.co.
  8. https://archive.today/20140410153853/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/1010145561.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+26,+2006&author=Richard+Lipez&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=T.13&desc=In+these+mysteries,+it's+not+just+whodunit+but+where+they+dunit+that+counts.+Richard+Lipez In these mysteries, it's not just whodunit but where they dunit that counts. Richard Lipez
  9. https://archive.today/20140410153853/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/799008001.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+27,+2005&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=T.14&desc=Book+World+in+Style Book World in Style
  10. https://archive.today/20140410153834/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/799883871.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+28,+2005&author=Patrick+Anderson&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=C.02&desc=The+Very+Picture+of+Pulp The Very Picture of Pulp
  11. http://www.spinetinglermag.com/reviews/2006/04/shooting-elvis-by-robert-m-eversz.html Review of Shooting Elvis
  12. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Shooting Elvis by Robert Eversz, Author Grove/Atlantic $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1582-9. PublishersWeekly.com.
  13. Web site: GYPSY HEARTS | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
  14. http://www.think-magazine.com/culture/54-fiction/540-gypsy-hearts-by-robert-m-eversz.html Think-Magazine.COM - Gypsy Hearts by Robert M. Eversz
  15. Web site: Robert Eversz : Zero to the Bone : Digging James Dean : Burning Garbo : Book Review. mostlyfiction.com.
  16. Web site: reviews from CrimeSpree Magazine, Issue 5.
  17. Web site: John Orr reviews Zero to the Bone by Robert Eversz. regardingarts.com.

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