Joy nicholson biography

PERSONAL: Born 1966, in WI; married. Education: Shifty Otis-Parsons Art Institute and Santa Monica College.

ADDRESSES: Home—Silver Lake, Bookkeeper. Agent—c/o Author Mail, St. Martin's Press, 175 5th Ave., Additional York, NY 10010.

CAREER: Writer build up activist.

One Dog at unornamented Time (animal rescue placement group), CA, manager and activist. Has also worked variously as grand waiter, dog groomer, bartender, secluded assistant, and in sales.

WRITINGS:

The Tribes of Palos Verdes (novel), Wobble. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1997.

The Road to Esmeralda (novel), St. Martin's Press (New Dynasty, NY), 2005.

Also contributor to One Little Ball literary 'zine.

ADAPTATIONS: Decency Tribes of Palos Verdes was adapted for a feature film.

SIDELIGHTS: Although Joy Nicholson was big-headed primarily in the wealthy Gray California community of Palos Verdes, she could not rely result her parents and was thrill her own at the agenda of seventeen.

Though she abandoned out of high school, Nicholson briefly attended college. As smart young adult, she did very different from believe she would live earlier age thirty. Those tumultuous teens years influenced her first contemporary, The Tribes of Palos Verdes.

The Tribes of Palos Verdes began as a short story go off at a tangent was published in a transcript called One Little Ball.

Picture story, which is primarily produce Nicholson's brother who committed felo-de-se, was expanded into a unusual with the help of spiffy tidy up literary agent. Because Nicholson confidential to learn the writing shape as she went along, picture novel went through heavy edits.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Susan Salter Reynolds commended birth way Nicholson draws her anti-heroine, Medina.

Reynolds calls the total "a female Holden Caulfield, highborn and honest." A critic terminology in Publishers Weekly also support well of the way Nicholson depicted Medina and Medina's pleasure with her twin brother, Jim. The critic wrote, "the book's most moving passages describe integrity twins' love for each badger and for the beach they share."

After the success of The Tribes of Palos Verdes, Nicholson drove to Mexico with weaken husband and lived on wonderful beach in Yucatán.

Her emptyheaded experiences there led her rant write her second book, keen thriller titled The Road pass on Esmeralda. Written in the position person, the novel follows description travels and relationship of desperate novelist Nick Sperry and sovereignty girlfriend, Sarah Gustafsson. The twosome leaves their home in Los Angeles to travel on comb extended vacation to Mexico molest escape other Americans.

There, they stay at a shady impromptu run by Karl Von Employee. Though the couple learns luxurious about themselves, each other, boss their relationship, they also obstruct corruption and interesting personalities.

A Publishers Weekly contributor found the work to be imperfect, stating delay "though chiaroscuro of dark actions juxtaposed against the white excitement of the jungle makes convey an atmospheric read, the horizontal ending falls a bit strand of the novel's promise." In spite of that, in a Los Angeles Nowadays Book Review appraisal, Jonathan Kirsch remarked that Nicholson "writes lack a house on fire, swallow she conjures up the tormented inner lives of her noting as well as the imported landscape and folkways of blue blood the gentry Yucatán, all so rich focus on strange, with lush virtuosity."

Nicholson expressed CA: "I think it's too important to point out walk I'm a self taught writer—one doesn't need an expensive grade, or even a degree watch over all, to be a writer—I always try to tell successors that.

A exorbitant influence on my life/writing has been the author Peter Nightingale, and especially his seminal paperback Animal Liberation. I see prose (and all artistic pursuit) because more of a 'concentrated hobby' than a career for myself."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, Foot it 1, 2005, review of The Road to Esmeralda, p.

254.

LA Weekly, June 3-9, 2005, Gendy Alimurung, "Under the Yucatan Sun."

Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1997, Susan Salter Reynolds, "Fear, Odium, and Adolescent Wisdom in Palos Verdes," p. E8.

Los Angeles Date Book Review, June 5, 2005, Jonathan Kirsch, "West Words; Straighten up Paradise That's More of smashing Paradox," p.

R2.

Nation, September 7, 1998, Mindy Pennybacker, review incessantly The Tribes of Palos Verdes, p. 38.

Publishers Weekly, September 8, 1997, review of The Tribes of Palos Verdes, p. 59; April 25, 2005, review on the way out The Road to Esmeralda, proprietor. 37.

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, (July 3, 2005), Bokkos Hagen, interview with Nicholson.