Jamie Pastor Bolnick

Jamie Pastor Bolnick was born in Huntington, New York and began acting professionally at age sixteen. She eventually turned to writing, working as a freelance feature journalist for several New York City newspapers.

Her first book, "Winnie: My Life in the Institution" was excerpted in New York Newsday Sunday Magazine and in Redbook, and made into an NBC-TV Movie of the Week starring Meredith Baxter-Birney.

"Living at the Edge of the World" was excerpted in Interview Magazine and The New York Post, and was adapted as a one-woman play performed in Chicago in 2012. It is now also available on Kindle and Nook..

Both books have been translated into numerous languages including Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, and Dutch, and both have been utilized as teaching aids at several colleges and universities in the USA and in Canada.

She has also written several screenplays, and is currently working on an autobiographical account of her experiences as a struggling young actress in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, sharing a three-room apartment -- bathtub in the kitchen, john in the hallway -- with a parade of other aspiring young actors, artists and writers.

Greenwich Village is still her home, but the apartment is larger and has not just one inside bathroom, but two. She shares it with her family and a charismatic terrier named Theodore.