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Novelist Gloria Nagy: From Sea to Shining Sea

Novelist Gloria Nagy:  From Sea to Shining Sea

Introduction to Gloria Nagy. 3:26 min. Interview: Raymond Elman.  Videography: Lee Skye. Music:  Carmen Cicero.  Recorded in Golden Beach, FL.  5/16/2023.

 

GLORIA NAGY is the internationally best-selling author of twelve books including “The Beauty,”  “Remain Calm,” “Looking For Leo,” “SeaSick,” “Marriage,” and the New York Times best-seller, “A House in the Hamptons.” She lives with her husband Richard Saul Wurman, creator of The TED Conference (see our ArtSpeak video conversation with Wurman) in Miami, FL. They have four children, six grandchildren and a yellow lab, Jacob.

 

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DEVELOP A VOICE:   7:45 min. 

What was it like growing up in Beverly Hills and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   3:46 min.

How did your family life impact your writing?

 

CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND:   4:54 min.

Tell us about your first novel, “Unapparent Wounds.”

 

CRITICAL THINKING:   4:51 min.

You grew up in a rarified bubble of accomplished people.

 

COMMUNITY VALUES:    2:49 min.

I am perpetually annoyed by recent generations who won’t watch black & white movies and aren’t interested in anything that happened in the arts before 1980.

 

UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS:    3:02 min.

How did your writing evolve?

 

SERENDIPITY:   3:40 min.

Tell us the publishing stories of your first two novels.

 

SERENDIPITY:   3:25 min.

How did you meet your husband Richard Saul Wurman. Inventor of the TED Conference?

 

PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS:    6:29 min.

When you met Richard, had he already started the TED Conferences?

 

UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS:   4:21 min.

Where were you living at that time?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   2:50 min.

How did living on the East Coast impact your writing?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:    9:27 min

Why did you move to Miami?

 

BREAKS THE RULES:   2:49 min. 

What’s your favorite movie?