At the same time, she reconnected with her family's homeland, discovering a Greece rarely seen by tourists. Gage was determined to rebuild the ancestral home, "both a metaphor for and a means by which the family's emotional wounds begin to heal," in the words of Library Journal contributor Sheila Kasperek.
They even told her she would be eaten by wolves or killed by Albanians. When Gage announced her intention of returning to the village of Lia, the scene of her family's tragedy, her aunts were deeply disturbed and fearful. Nicholas Gage reconstructed his mother's life and death in Eleni, and Gage, who eventually rebuilt her Grandmother Eleni's house, chronicles her own effort to reclaim her family history in North of Ithaka.
Gage's grandmother was able to send her children out of wartorn Greece during the late 1940s, but was herself betrayed by neighbors and killed by the Communist insurgents who occupied her village. The book is connected to Eleni, a book written by Gage's father, Nicholas Gage, that tells the story of Gage's grandmother and namesake. Gage is the author of North of Ithaka: A Journey Home through a Family's Extraordinary Past. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2005.Īlso contributor to Travel & Leisure, Real Simple, American Scholar, New York Times, and other journals.Īuthor's work has been translated into Dutch and Greek. North of Ithaka: A Journey Home through a Family's Extraordinary Past (memoir), St. E-mail- ĬAREER: Worked for magazines Allure and Elle, New York, NY InStyle, New York, NY, contributing editor freelance writer, 2001– People magazine, beauty editor, 2004–.
Education: Harvard College, B.A., 1996.ĪDDRESSES: Agent-Andy McNicol, William Morris Agency, 1325 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019. PERSONAL: Born October 8, 1974, in New York, NY daughter of Nicholas Gage (a writer).
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