Adriana Trigiani is the bestselling author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the instant New York Times bestseller The Good Left Undone, the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker’s Wife; the Big Stone Gap series and more. Trigiani directed the feature film Then Came You (2020), starring Craig Ferguson and Kathie Lee Gifford, filmed on location in Scotland. Her screen adaptation of Very Valentine (2019) debuted on Lifetime television in June 2019. Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture Big Stone Gap (2014), based on her debut novel and filmed entirely on location in her Virginia hometown. She is the award-winning filmmaker of the documentary Queens of the Big Time (1996).
Adriana Trigiani is the bestselling author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the instant New York Times bestseller The Good Left Undone, the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker’s Wife; the Big Stone Gap series and more. Trigiani directed the feature film Then Came You (2020), starring Craig Ferguson and Kathie Lee Gifford, filmed on location in Scotland. Her screen adaptation of Very Valentine (2019) debuted on Lifetime television in June 2019. Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture Big Stone Gap (2014), based on her debut novel and filmed entirely on location in her Virginia hometown. She is the award-winning filmmaker of the documentary Queens of the Big Time (1996).
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