Ada Nicolescu

Ada Nicolescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, where she witnessed life through the 1930s, World War II and Stalin’s Communism. She is a graduate of Bucharest’s Carol Davila University of Medicine. In 1961, she emigrated to Paris, France, arriving in October in New York. In addition to her medical degree, Dr. Nicolescu earned a MA in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. A member of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the American Psychiatric Association, she is currently a psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan, at work on a second novel. She is married to Dr. Lawrence Le Shan.