Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781439235553
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: BookSurge - LLC
Publication Date: 05-18-2009
Pages: 394
Product Dimensions: 5.24(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.88(d)
About the Author
Vincent Virga is the author of six novels: The Gaywyck Trilogy-Gaywyck, Vadriel Vail, and Children of Paradise--Herald Angel, Early Ripe, and A Comfortable Corner, all to be published in ViVa Editions with BookSurge. Critically acclaimed for Cartographia: Mapping Civilization, he has also co-authored with the Library of Congress Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (with Alan Brinkley), and The American Civil War: 365 Days (with Margaret Wagner and Gary Gallagher). He has been hailed as "America's foremost picture editor" for having researched, edited, captioned, and designed nearly 150 picture sections in books by authors including John Wayne, Jane Fonda, Arianna Huffington, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton. He also edited Forcing Nature: Trees in Los Angeles, photographs by George Haas for Vincent Virga Editions. His latest book is Civil War Sketch Book with Harry Katz. He is also the U.S. Representative of the Jackie Clarke Collection in Ballina, Mayo, Ireland, where he spends his summers.