Joie Davidow, author, journalist

Thank you for visiting my website. I am an author, a freelance writer, editor and consultant, living in Rome.

My latest book, I Wouldn't Leave Rome to Go to Heaven, was published in March 2008. I am currently at work on a historical novel about the life-long love of Ivan Turgenev for the opera singer Pauline Viardot-Garcia. It's been a fascinating journey, as I meet the characters who peopled their world — Tolstoy, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Rossini, Henry James, Charles Dickens — and travel with them from Russia to London to Paris to Baden-Baden. My memoir, "Marked for Life," about growing up with a purple-red birthmark that covered nearly half my face, was published by Harmony, a division of Random House, in June 2003. With Vikki Ericks, I founded and edit an online weekly magazine, www.InRomeNow.com. During the more than two decades I spent living in Los Angeles, I was a founder of L.A. Style magazine, Sí Magazine and the L.A. Weekly. My articles and essays have appeared in such publications as Metropolitan Home, More, Town and Country and Westways.