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Fernanda Eberstadt
Fernanda "Nenna" Eberstadt (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer living in France.
Eberstadt is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a fashion photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Nash Eberstadt, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was Ferdinand Eberstadt, a Wall Street financier and adviser to presidents; her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash. One of her brothers, Nicholas Eberstadt, is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
She went to the Brearley School in New York City. As a teenager, she worked at Andy Warhol's Factory and for Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her first published piece was a profile in Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine in 1979 of the travel writer Bruce Chatwin.
At age eighteen, Eberstadt moved to the United Kingdom, where she was one of the first women to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, from which she graduated in 1982.
In 1985, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. published the 25-year-old Eberstadt's first novel, Low Tide, which told the story of Jezebel, daughter of an English art dealer and a mad Louisiana heiress, and her fatal love affair with two young brothers. It takes place in New York, Oxford, and Mexico. Praise for her work landed her an interview with intellectual William F. Buckley on his television program, Firing Line, where she appeared with Bret Easton Ellis, who had published Less than Zero the same year.
Her next novel, Isaac and His Devils, came in 1991 and was also widely acclaimed, described by Library Journal as a "rich novel, full of promise for the author's future". Set in rural New Hampshire, the novel is about Isaac Hooker, a half-deaf, half-blind, hugely fat and ambitious boy-genius and his struggle to fulfill his parents' blighted dreams.
Her third novel, published in 1997 and set in the late 1980s New York art world, was When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth. It recounted the rise and fall of the young painter, Isaac Hooker.
Eberstadt began writing essays and criticism for such publications as Commentary, The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair. Her widely cited essay "The Palace and the City", about the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and the politics of urban restoration in Palermo, was published in the December 23, 1991, issue of The New Yorker. Writer Daniel Mendelsohn cited Eberstadt's essay as his all-time favorite piece in The New Yorker.
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Fernanda Eberstadt
Fernanda "Nenna" Eberstadt (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer living in France.
Eberstadt is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a fashion photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Nash Eberstadt, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was Ferdinand Eberstadt, a Wall Street financier and adviser to presidents; her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash. One of her brothers, Nicholas Eberstadt, is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
She went to the Brearley School in New York City. As a teenager, she worked at Andy Warhol's Factory and for Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her first published piece was a profile in Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine in 1979 of the travel writer Bruce Chatwin.
At age eighteen, Eberstadt moved to the United Kingdom, where she was one of the first women to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, from which she graduated in 1982.
In 1985, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. published the 25-year-old Eberstadt's first novel, Low Tide, which told the story of Jezebel, daughter of an English art dealer and a mad Louisiana heiress, and her fatal love affair with two young brothers. It takes place in New York, Oxford, and Mexico. Praise for her work landed her an interview with intellectual William F. Buckley on his television program, Firing Line, where she appeared with Bret Easton Ellis, who had published Less than Zero the same year.
Her next novel, Isaac and His Devils, came in 1991 and was also widely acclaimed, described by Library Journal as a "rich novel, full of promise for the author's future". Set in rural New Hampshire, the novel is about Isaac Hooker, a half-deaf, half-blind, hugely fat and ambitious boy-genius and his struggle to fulfill his parents' blighted dreams.
Her third novel, published in 1997 and set in the late 1980s New York art world, was When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth. It recounted the rise and fall of the young painter, Isaac Hooker.
Eberstadt began writing essays and criticism for such publications as Commentary, The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair. Her widely cited essay "The Palace and the City", about the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and the politics of urban restoration in Palermo, was published in the December 23, 1991, issue of The New Yorker. Writer Daniel Mendelsohn cited Eberstadt's essay as his all-time favorite piece in The New Yorker.