Paula Weideger

Paula Weideger was born and raised in the Bronx and then Long Island. She started out as a painter, went to graduate school in Physiological Psychology, and taught at universities in New York before becoming a writer. Her journalism has been published in many newspapers and magazines in the US and Britain, including the Sunday New York Times, Travel and Leisure, Town & Country, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. A New Yorker always, she has lived in Paris and Amsterdam for twenty years and spent a great deal of time in London before managing to move to Venice.