Robert McLeod Eversz (born April 22, 1954) is an American fiction writer, screenwriter, and educator. The author of the Nina Zero novels, he is a co-founder of the Prague Summer Program for writers, a study abroad program for creative writers in the English language.

Life

Robert Eversz was born in

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. He received his BA at the

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, followed by his MFA at the

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. Eversz co-founded the Prague Summer Program, and occupies a seat on the permanent faculty. He served as visiting professor of English at

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in 2005 and 2006, and as

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in 2007. In 2007, he was the finalists’ judge for the

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Award Series in the Novel. He also teaches at the

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Literary work

Eversz is best known as the author of the award winning series of crime novels featuring the paparazza Nina Zero, set in

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. The first novel in the series, ''Shooting Elvis'', was

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’s'' Crime Novel of the Year in 1997, and the Best Humorous Crime Novel of 1996 in ''

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'' (awarded by

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). The next in the series, ''Killing Paparazzi'', was a ''

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Book World Rave'' in 2001. The Washington Post has written favorable reviews for the following titles in the series. His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. His expatriate novel, ''Gypsy Hearts'', is set in

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of the 1990s.

Selected bibliography

*''Bottom Line is Murder'' 1988 *''False Profit'' 1990 *''Shooting Elvis'', Grove/Atlantic, 1996 *''Gypsy Hearts'', Grove/Atlantic, 1998 *''Killing Paparazzi'', Macmillan, 2001 *''Burning Garbo'', Simon & Schuster, 2003 *''Digging James Dean'', Simon & Schuster, 2004 *''Zero to the Bone'', Simon & Schuster, 2006

References

External links

Nina Zero WebsitePrague Summer ProgramUCLA Writers' Program
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