Memoirs & Fiction by Andrew Nixon
Peter Novak is a fictitious character. In the novel he spends much of his adult life in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a steel mill town on the Monongahela River. Peter and the other characters in the book are imaginary, but the City of Clairton is a real city that housed steel mills and coke plants. In the […]
I grew up in a Clairton, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh, 12 miles south on the Monongahela River. Clairton and surrounding communities were the settings of much of the book, Three Lives of Peter Novak. So it seemed logical to return to my roots for a book tour. My first of four planned presentations took […]
Soon I will leave for my book tour to the greater Pittsburgh area. Please see previous posts for dates and times. If you are in the Pittsburgh area this week I’d love to meet you and sign a book for you. Saturday Morning I’ll be at the Bethel Park Library I’ll be speaking on Writing […]
My first book, 50 Shades of Grades, My Journey Through Wacademia, begins in my hometown, Clairton, PA, situated on the Monongahela River, twelve miles upriver from Pittsburgh. My second book, an historical novel, Three Lives of Peter Novak, begins in Bosnia in 1889, travels across Europe, enters the U.S. through the port of Baltimore, and […]
It has been a busy time in author land. Both books, 50 Shades of Grades, My Journey Through Wacademia, and Three Lives of Peter Novak continue to sell well. We’re still hearing from readers who met us at the Santa Ana Arts and Literature Festival last month. This month we were privileged to participate in […]
I can remember when the quiet village of Henderson, NV was little more than a bedroom community that housed casino workers, the Time plant, and the city dump. The community was mocked and satirized with bumper stickers that claimed “Henderson Stinks” (a reference to the odiferous dump, especially when the wind blew in a westerly […]
