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Nick Holmberg

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Psychological Mystery, Family Saga, Coming Of Age

Influences

Viet Thanh Nguyen, John Steinbeck

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Nick Holmberg is an award-winning author who grew up in Northern California. He earned his BA in English from SJSU in 2000. While earning a Master’s in creative writing at The City College of New York, he started work on his first novel, The Emergent. Since 2004, he has lived and worked as an educator in his native California, as well as South Korea, Illinois, and Texas. Throughout all of this, he has experimented with content, form, and function on this website and in the novel.

He now resides in Des Moines, where he is currently at work on his next project, a novella and five short stories tentatively titled Anxiety and Other Comedies.

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Orlando: A Biography

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

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A book for all artists; a book for all humanists. Not sure why it took so long for me to get around to reading this masterpiece, but the timing couldn’t be better as I finish my second novel with many of the same themes surrounding why we create art, why we live.

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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

by Ford Madox Ford

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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From a Certain Point of View (From a Certain Point of View, #1)

by Elizabeth Schaefer

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