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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 three recent novels, The Arrivals, The Wanderers, and now The Searchers, 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 writing novels that may provide an answer to the question most of us ask: "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 subject of the afterlife and continues to write about it. The Arrivals, The Wanderers, and her latest novel, The Searchers, can be ordered from the Swedenborg Foundation (www.Swedenborg.com), and of course from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Look in the 'Works' section for more about The Searchers, reviewed in the January 24 Publishers Weekly, in the Mar/April issue of ForeWord Review, twice a Literary World "Religion Daily Book Pick", and a finalist in the "USA Best Books 2011 Awards". |
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