Reggie Nadelson is an American novelist, known for writing mystery novels.
She was born and raised in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York. After leaving local City and Country school and Elisabeth Irwin High School, she went to Vassar, where she majored in English. She then attended Stanford for her graduate degree in journalism.
She eventually came to work in London for The Guardian newspaper, then The Independent. She also began writing documentaries for the BBC. She has also contributed to the US magazine Vogue, as well as several other London-based newspapers and magazines.
In 1995, she created "Artie Cohen", a Russian-born, New York City cop around whom most of her novels would be based.
Tom Hanks has optioned Nadelson's Dean Reed biography "Comrade Rockstar" and is planning to produce a movie on Reed's life.[cite news |title= An American who gyrated to a Communist beat |url= http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/07/features/idlede8.php |publisher=The New York Times / International Herald Tribune | author=Thomas Mallon |date= July 7, 2006] ]She spends her time living in both Manhattan and London.
Bibliography
Artie Cohen series
*"Red Mercury Blues" (1995) (also published as "Red Hot Blues")
*"Hot Poppies" (1997)
*"Bloody London" (1999)
*"Sex Dolls" (2001)
*"Disturbed Earth" (2004)
*"Red Hook" (2005)
*"Fresh Kills" (2006)
*"Skin Trade" (2006)To be published july 2008 : Londongrad
Other novels
*"Somebody Else" (2003)
Non-fiction
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*"Comrade Rockstar" (1991) (also published as "Comrade Rockstar: The Life and Mystery of Dean Reed, the All-American Boy Who Brought Rock 'N' Roll to the Soviet Union")
References
*cite news |title= Crime - On the waterfront (review) |url= http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/crime/0,,1602929,00.html |publisher=The Guardian | author= Helena Kennedy |date= October 29, 2005
*cite news |title= Entertainment: Comrade Rockstar by Reggie Nadelson (review) |url= http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article392054.ece |publisher=The Sunday Times (UK) | author= Adam Sweeting |date= November 21, 2004
*cite news |title= Friday Book: Sex and drugs and nuclear weapons; Sex Dolls by Reggie Nadelson|url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-84416777.html |publisher= The Independent | first= Matthew J. |last= Reisz |date= April 5, 2002