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The daughter of Frederick and Isabel Eberstadt, 1960s patrons of New York City's Avant-garde , her paternal grandfather was renowned Wall Street financier and advisor to government and presidents, Ferdinand Eberstadt , and her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash . A gifted child, at age eleven Fernanda Eberstadt took time off from Grade School to write a novel about the Bolshevik Revolution . By age sixteen, she was immersing herself in New York culture, working at ''The Factory'', the Andy Warhol studio on Union Square , and hanging out nights at Studio 54 . At age eighteen she moved to the United Kingdom where she studied at Magdalen College, Oxford . Fernanda Eberstadt began writing essays and criticism for such publications as Commentary Magazine , The New Yorker , Vogue , New York Times Magazine , and Vanity Fair . In 1985, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. published the twenty-five-year old Eberstadt's first work of Literary Fiction titled "''Low Tide''." Praise for her work landed her an interview with intellectual William F. Buckley on his television program, '' Firing Line ''. Her next novel "''Isaac and His Devils''" came in 1991 and was again widely acclaimed, described by Library Journal as a "rich novel, full of promise for the author's future." Her third novel, published in 1997, established Eberstadt as a significant literary voice. Set in the late 1980s New York art world, "''When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth''" recounted the rise and fall of a young Painter . Following her pattern of a six-year interval between novels, Eberstadt published "''The Furies''" in 2003. Praised by Kirkus Reviews , Booklist , Publishers Weekly , and the New York Times Book Review , fellow writer Bret Easton Ellis called it spellbinding and the New York Observer said "''The Furies'', veers pretty close to Genius ." Fernanda Eberstadt and her husband and two children live in the south of France , in the countryside of the Roussillon area in Pyrénées-Orientales . Her work of non-fiction titled "''Little Money Street - In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France''," is scheduled to be released by Knopf in March of 2006. |
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