Nora Lourie Percival

Nora Lourie Percival was born just after World War I began, in Samara, on the Volga River in Russia. The revolution drove her father out of the country to safety, and her family lived through a civil war and a famine. These tribulations were recorded in "Weather of the Heart," her first memoir. In 1922 the family was reunited in New York, where Nora grew up. The author’s career has been largely in the editorial field. She has worked for Random House, the American Management Association, and Barnard College. Now long retired, she is still writing and doing free-lance editing. An only child, she has raised five children and now has eleven grandchildren, all wonders. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina, where she enjoys the natural beauties and is inspired by the literary renaissance in the South.