The Hobo Diaries

Holly Nadler started her writing career at the age of 8 in the San Fernando Valley, when she received her first typewriter and tapped out a few chapters of a Nancy Drew mystery (not knowing you can’t write someone else’s series). As an adult she sold a couple of screenplays as well as scripts for prime-time TV comedies, including Laverne & Shirley and One Day At A Time. A move from LA to the Martha’s Vineyard in 1991 led to 6 published books, notably Haunted Island, Ghosts of Boston Town, and Vineyard Confidential, as well as articles in national magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Lear’s, and Women’s World. She’s spent enough years of travel, particularly in Europe, to learn how to live out of a suitcase. She’s been married to — and divorced from — 3 lovely men and has a grown-up son, Charlie Nadler, professional standup comic like his dad, Marty Nadler. She writes for the MV Times and still putzes around as a vagabond. As she waits for someone to hand her a key to her next permanent home, she recommends, as coping devices, resilience, humor, and meditation.  Holly Nadler started her writing career at the age of 8 in the San Fernando Valley, when she received her first typewriter and tapped out a few chapters of a Nancy Drew mystery (not knowing you can’t write someone else’s series). As an adult she sold a couple of screenplays as well as scripts for prime-time TV comedies, including Laverne & Shirley and One Day At A Time. A move from LA to the Martha’s Vineyard in 1991 led to 6 published books, notably Haunted Island, Ghosts of Boston Town, and Vineyard Confidential, as well as articles in national magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Lear’s, and Women’s World. She’s spent enough years of travel, particularly in Europe, to learn how to live out of a suitcase. She’s been married to — and divorced from — 3 lovely men and has a grown-up son, Charlie Nadler, professional standup comic like his dad, Marty Nadler. She writes for the MV Times and still putzes around as a vagabond. As she waits for someone to hand her a key to her next permanent home, she recommends, as coping devices, resilience, humor, and meditation.