Robert Eversz
Robert McLeod Eversz (born April 22, 1954) is an American writer, screenwriter, and educator. He was born in Great Falls, Montana, and earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. Eversz co-founded the Prague Summer Program for Writers and remains on its permanent faculty. He has taught at Western Michigan University as a visiting professor (2005–2006) and as writer-in-residence in 2007, and he teaches in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
He is best known for the Nina Zero crime novels set in Southern California. The first book, Shooting Elvis, won Oslo’s Crime Novel of the Year in 1997 and was named The Guardian’s Best Humorous Crime Novel of 1996. The next title, Killing Paparazzi, received a rave review from The Washington Post in 2001. His novels have been translated into about fifteen languages. His expatriate novel Gypsy Hearts is set in Prague in the 1990s.
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