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BiographyNaomi Gladish Smith is the daughter and granddaughter of Swedenborgian ministers, and while religion has been a central part of her life and her two recent novels, The Arrivals, and The Wanderers are about the afterlife, when she began writing, her work certainly hadn't anything to do with religion. Matter of fact, her first book, Buried Remembrance, was a mystery. Her essays on a variety of subjects have appeared in venues as diverse as The Christian Science Monitor, JAMA, and various anthologies and she has read many of them on WBEZ, Chicago's NPR station. When writing these essays, Naomi often found herself describing her religious background and beliefs. From there it wasn't a far step to the idea of writing a novel that provides an answer to the question, "what happens when we die?" Naomi, born in England to American parents, now lives in Glenview, Illinois and Lake Worth, Florida. She is still fascinated by the 'what happens when we die' question and continues to write about it. Both The Arrivals and The Wanderers can be ordered from the Swedenborg Foundation (www.Swedenborg.com), and of course from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. |
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