Leslie Johansen Nack
Author Interview - Leslie Johansen Nack
Author of The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies
The true-life story of Marion Davies’ thirty-four-year relationship with William Randolph Hearst including a whirlwind courtship, a movie career spanning two decades and forty-four films, a secret child, and harrowing family excesses, not to mention a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. The Blue Butterfly is a behind-the-scenes look into the opulent private life of Marion Davies and how the movie Citizen Kane stole her legacy and turned everyone against her.
Author Interview - Leslie Johansen Nack
Author I draw inspiration from: My travels, my family, my heart
Favorite place to read a book: On an anchored sailboat
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Circe is the character, Circe is the title and Madeline Miller is the author
Author Interview - Leslie Johansen Nack | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: when I was 9 years old writing our family adventures on the back of our log book pages
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: audiobook
The last book I read: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Author Interview - Leslie Johansen Nack | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer: depends, but computer
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Ana, The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
Author Interview - Leslie Johansen Nack | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: miserable woman
Favorite decade in fashion history: seventies
Place I’d most like to travel: Currently I'm dying to live in Crete and study Greek mythology
My signature drink: cranberry juice and club soda with a lime
Favorite artist: Melanie Shook Dupré (currently)
Number one on my bucket list: Live in Crete
Anything else you'd like to add: Peace, love and let's save the ocean
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Author Bio: Leslie Johansen Nack’s debut, Fourteen, A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival received five indie awards, including the 2016 Finalist in Memoir at the Next Generation Indie Book Award. She lives in sunny San Diego and enjoys sailing, hiking and her granddog, Alice.
Before she started writing, she raised two children, ran a mechanical engineering business with her husband, took care of her aging mother, and dreamed of retirement when she could write full-time. She did everything late in life, including getting her degree in English Literature from UCLA at age thirty-one.
