Nellie Hermann
Nellie Hermann is an American writer who lives in New York, and the author of two novels. Her debut novel was "The Cure for Grief" (Simon & Schuster, 2008); her second novel, "The Season of Migration", deals with Vincent van Gogh's time in Belgium, and uses the artist's correspondence along with fabricated letters. Early life. Born in Boston and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, Hermann attended Brown University before getting her MFA at Columbia University.