Best-selling New York author Adriana Trigiani, who was the inspiration behind many of the story lines in Sex and the City, will be will be reading at a special WORD Festival and Ottakars event at the University of Aberdeen, her only Scottish date on 3 September.
The author of international best-sellers The Big Stone Gap trilogy and Lucia Lucia tours the UK at the beginning of September to launch Rococo, her latest hilarious tale about an interior designer determined to change the look of his small New Jersey town.
Over 500 thousand copies of Adriana’s novels have sold in the UK alone and she is a favourite among reading groups worldwide. She is also an award-winning playwright and documentary filmmaker and has written and produced some of television’s top-rated shows, including the groundbreaking Cosby Show. Currently she is casting for a film version of Big Stone Gap which she will also direct.
Adriana was born into a big Italian family (she’s the third of seven kids) in Roseto, Pennsylvania. Her father got an offer to move his blouse manufacturing business to Appalachia in the late sixties, so he moved his young family to Big Stone Gap, Virginia a small coal mining town on the Virginia/Tennessee border and the inspiration and setting for her three book series.
Adriana now lives in a brownstone in Greenwich Village with her husband Tim and Lucia her two year old daughter. They occupy the bottom three floors and the top three are home to Michael Patrick King the writer and director of Sex and the City. They share the laundry in the middle of the house which doubles as an office and as a result Adriana has been the inspiration behind many of the story lines in Sex and the City, including Miranda’s eye surgery, motherhood and Samantha, the hookers and the cup cakes.
Adriana Trigiani’s only Scottish date is on 3 September at 11am at King’s College Centre, King’s College, University of Aberdeen.
For more information contact Emma Henderson at Colman Getty PR, 0131 558 8851, emma@colmangettypr.co.uk or Jenni Massie, Office of External Affairs, University of Aberdeen, 01224 272013, j.massie@abdn.ac.uk
Or visit www.adrianatrigiani.com