Peter Najarian

Peter Najarian was born in 1940 in Union City, NJ. He grew up in the Holy Cross Apostolic Church community and attended Rutgers University. He would eventually move to California and live in an old cottage for 40 years before recently moving to a bungalow apartment nearby. He also taught a writing class at UC Berkeley in the 90s. Most of his books were inspired by his parents' stories of surviving the massacre, including Voyages, Daughters of Memory, The Artist and His Mother and The Paintings of Art Pinajian. Najarian is also a painter, following in the footsteps of his cousin Art.