Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1971) is an American novelist, journalist, and editor who lives in the Bay Area.
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[edit] Books
Vida has written four books. Published in 2003, And Now You Can Go is a novel set in New York, San Francisco, and the Philippines, tracing the impulsive journeys of a young woman in the wake of an assault.[1] In a 2003 'Guardian article Vida voiced her plan to author a trilogy of novels "on the subject of violence and rage."[2] The second novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name takes place in Lapland and was published in 2007. Vida's most recent novel, The Lovers, was published in June 2010 by Ecco. Joyce Carol Oates called "The Lovers" "a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman’s voyage to self-discovery.”
[edit] Film work
Vida collaborated on the screenplay for the 2009 film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and co-starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph.[3]
[edit] 826 Valencia
She is a co-founder and board member of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization that teaches creative writing to children and teens.[4]
[edit] Cultural references
Vendela Vida is also the inspiration for a 2010 song of the same name by indie/folk rock band Dinosaur Feathers on their album Fantasy Memorial.
[edit] Works
- Eggers, Dave; Vida, Vendela (2009), Away We Go: A Screenplay, Vintage Books, ISBN 9780307475886
- Julavits, Heidi; Park, Ed; Vida, Vendela (2009), Read Hard: Five Years of Great Writing from the Believer, McSweeney's, ISBN 9781934781395
- Vida, Vendela (2000), Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations (revised ed.), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 9780312263287
- Vida, Vendela (2008), And Now You Can Go (reprint ed.), Paw Prints, ISBN 9781439573389
- Vida, Vendela (2008), Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel (reprint ed.), HarperCollins, ISBN 9780060828387
- Vida, Vendela (2008), The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (revised ed.), McSweeney's, ISBN 9781932416947
- Vida, Vendela (2010), The Lovers: A Novel, HarperCollins, ISBN 9780060828394
[edit] References
- ^ Julian Guthrie, "Vendela Vida wraps trilogy on women in crisis," The San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 2010.
- ^ Duncan Campbell, "What Do They Mean? Duncan Campbell Meets Vendela Vida," The Guardian, September 23, 2003. (The newspaper describes Vida and husband Dave Eggers as "the Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt of literature.")
- ^ Nathan Englander, "Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida," Interview Magazine, May, 2009.
- ^ Sarah Crown, "A life in writing: Vendela Vida," The Guardian, July 8, 2011.
