Author Bio
VICTORIA ZACKHEIM is a freelance writer, book editor, and instructor in the UCLA Writers' Program. Her book reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and many online sites. She writes and records commentaries for the Mimi Geerges Show about writing, writers, and life in the United States (Satellite XM radio and public radio stations) and is a frequent keynote speaker for non-profit organizational and academic events. Victoria is the author of a novel, The Bone Weaver and the editor of two anthologies: The Other Woman (Warner Books, June 2007) and For Keeps (Seal Press, December 2007). As a playwright, her first play, A Deadly Competition (based on the tragic consequences of competition between French and American scientists to develop an AIDS vaccine) had its first reading at the Athena Works festival. Her second play, Defending the Palais Royale—about French author Colette and accusations that she was a Nazi collaborator—is in progress. Victoria is the creator, writer, and associate producer of the documentary film, Saving Our Children: Francis Kelsey and the Story of Thalidomide (Rosemarie Reed Productions, LTD, Films for Thought), which goes into production in the fall of 2007, and is collaborating on a feature film about the 1972 Maidstone Prison breakout in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The mother of two adult children and the grandmother of twin girls, age four, Victoria lives in San Francisco.
Fun facts:
The first book I recall having a powerful impact on me was In Henry's Backyard, a children's book by Ruth Benedict. I was perhaps five years old and realized that you could tell a story (in this case, about a man who needed a transfusion and hated that it was an African American who was happy to donate his blood) and have it mean something, convey a message about life. That realization was magical. As a teenager, I was deeply moved by Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth and the powerful descriptions of landscape and suffering. Like so many writers, I was strongly influenced by the work of Wallace Stegner and found myself going back to read the same short passage again and again, awed by his ability to put words together in such a poetic way.
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