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Nina Sankovitch

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Nina Sankovitch

Nina Sankovitch is the acclaimed author of TOLSTOY AND THE PURPLE CHAIR, selected by Oprah as a “book to read now,” and a contributing writer for the Huffington Post. She is married with five children and three cats, and lives in Connecticut.

Nina Sankovitch

Books by Nina Sankovitch

by Nina Sankovitch - Nonfiction

Nina Sankovitch’s son is heading off to Harvard, and she hopes that he will write to her, as she wrote to her mother. But times have changed. Before Nina can persuade her child of the value of letters, she must first understand for herself exactly what it is about letters that make them so significant --- and just why she wants to receive letters from her son. So she sets off on a quest through the history of letter writing.