Nadja Maril is a writer and editor. She is the author of American Lighting 1840-1940 and Antique Lamp Buyer’s Guide, both published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. She is also the author of two children’s books published by Stemmer House (now part of Parnassus publishing),Me, Molly Midnight; the Artist’s Cat and Runaway Molly Midnight; the Artist’s Cat. Ms. Maril’s four books can be purchased online at www. Amazon.com.
Editor of Chesapeake Taste magazine and a member of the editorial content team of Jefferson Communications in Annapolis, Nadja  is excited to be helping the launch of a new publication which will put the focus on publishing stories about interesting people in the Chesapeake Bay region .It is the magazine’s  mission to print the real life stories of culture, community and flavor that make the Bay an inviting place to live and play.The first issue of Chesapeake Taste will be out in April 2012.

The former Editor-in-Chief of What’s Up? Publishing Group, Maril previously supervised three city/regional magazines: What’s Up? Annapolis, What’s Up? Eastern Shore, and What’s Up? Weddings as well as the content of the WhatsUpMag.com website. Prior  to working full-time in the editorial department of What’s Up?, she was the Lighting Editor for Victorian Homes Magazine and columnist for Washington Women Magazine and the Annapolis Capital newspaper.
Always a writer, Maril was also owner of an antiques business “Rare and Beautiful Things” that specialized in 19th and early 20th century antiques. Her love of old glass and lamps, inspired Nadja to research the history of American lighting and to collect old catalogues and books on the subject. An antiques dealer, with an extensive collection of lighting, she was asked to pen a reference book on the subject in the mid 1980′s. After several years of research, her first book , published by Schiffer publishers, “American Lighting 1840-1940″ was released in 1989 and several years later another book ‘Antique Lamp Buyer’s Guide,” followed, also published by Schiffer. Both books are in their second printings. Nadja has lectured on antiques and antique lighting and done appraisals. She continues to write personal essays, non-fiction, and fiction. The daughter of the late Herman Maril– a nationally renowned painter, she collaborated with her father on her two Molly Midnight children’s books.