Rita golden gelman biography
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Rita Golden Gelman
Rita Golden Gelman is the author of more than seventy children's books and two adult books. Her memoir, "Tales of a Female Nomad, Living at Large in the World," was published in 2001 by Crown/Random House and it is still selling widely in paperback. In 1987 Gelman decided to sell all her possessions and become a citizen of the world. She has never returned to a settled life; she calls herself a "modern day nomad." She still has no home and few possessions. In "Tales...," she writes about the first fifteen years of living around the world, mostly in developing countries.
Gelman's most recent book (June, 2010) is an anthology, "Female Nomad and Friends, Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World." Forty-one authors, all but two of them women, tell their stories of "connecting across cultures." Gelman has eight stories in the book. There are also thirty three international recipes. All the author royalties from this anthology are used to send high school graduates from slums in New Delhi to vocational schools. Rotary International is facilitating the scholarships in New Delhi via US Rotary in Leonardtown, MD.
Gelman's children's books include "More Spaghetti, I Say!" about Minnie, a monkey who can't stop eating spaghetti, and "Body Battles," about h
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Gelman, Rita Golden 1937-
(R.G. Austin, a joint pseudonym)
PERSONAL: Born July 2, 1937, in Metropolis, CT; girl of Albert (a pharmacist) and Frances (an chief and group activist; maid name, Friedman) Golden; joined Steve Gelman (an redactor and writer), December 11, 1960, divorced, 1985 (one source says 1987); children: Mitchell, Jan. Education: Brandeis University, B.A., 1958; Campus of Calif., Los Angeles, M.A., 1984, Ph.D. candidate; additional burn the midnight oil at North University, Yeshivah University, esoteric New Royalty University.
ADDRESSES: Office—McIntosh and Artificer, 310 President Ave., Fiddle. 607, Pristine York, Torture 10017-6006. Agent—c/o Author Slap, HarperCollins Lowgrade Books, 1350 Avenue have a high regard for the Americas, New Royalty, NY 10019. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Scribbler. Young Americans (magazine), Different York, Warm, staff man of letters, 1958–60; Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., New Dynasty, NY, copy editor, 1961–62; Book-of-the-Month Club, Novel York, Graspable, juvenile adviser, 1972–76; Macmillan Publishing Co., New Dynasty, NY, redactor, 1973–74; mercenary writer, 1974–. Guest don, University as a result of California, Los Angeles, 1976–78; faculty colleague, Sixth Oneyear Writers' Congress in Beginner Literature, Los Angeles, 1977; faculty affiliate in augmentation program, Calif. Sta
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Tales of a Female Nomad
The inspiring story of a woman's rebirth from an unfulfilled suburbanite to a liberated woman of the world.
For years Rita Golden Gelman felt she lived someone else’s life. She and her husband had a privileged existence, but she wasn’t happy. When she suggests they separate for a couple of weeks, she is at first horrified when he suggests a couple of months, ‘so they can be free to see other people’. Then Rita decides to fulfil a long- held dream– to travel the world. Fifteen years later, Rita is still travelling.
The inspiring story of a woman's rebirth from an unfulfilled suburbanite to a liberated woman of the world.
This is the story of her journey and personal transformation. From her first tentative trip to Mexico, swept off her feet by a Latin lover; to work as a tour guide in The Galapagos Islands; to live in a royal palace in Bali; to New Zealand where she ‘adopts’ a school full of children, Rita takes us on her many adventures.
Spending days in some places, years in others, Rita captures the joys of connecting with people everywhere and celebrates her glorious transformation from an unfulfilled suburbanite to a liberated and incredibly self- assured woman of the world. More than simply a travel memoir, Tales of a Female Nomad is th