David Levithan

David Levithan
Levithan at the 2018 Texas Teen Book Festival
Born	(1972-09-07) September 7, 1972 Short Hills, Millburn, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	Writer, editor
Nationality	American
Education	Double major in English and Political Science
Alma mater	Brown University
Period	2003–present
Genre	Young adult fiction; fantasy, supernatural fiction
Notable works	Boy Meets Boy Wide Awake Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Notable awards	Lambda Literary Award 2003 Boy Meets Boy Lambda Literary Award 2006 The Full Spectrum
Website
davidlevithan.com

David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American young adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.

Biography

At 19, Levithan received an internship at Scholastic Corporation where he began working on The Baby-sitters Club series. Levithan still works for Scholastic as an editorial director. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a young-adult imprint of Scholastic Press focusing on new voices and new authors. PUSH publishes edgier material for young adults and is where Patricia McCormick got her start with 2002's Cut.

In an interview with Barnes & Noble, Levithan said that he learned how to write books that were both funny and touching from Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. He continues to work as both a writer and editor saying, "I love editing just as much, if not more than writing".

Two of Levithan's novels have been made into movies. His first collaboration with Rachel Cohn, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, was published in 2006 and adapted for the big screen in 2008. Every Day, a romantic fantasy drama, was released in 2018, based on Levithan's 2012 novel of the same name.

Levithan has been a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey.

In 2016, Levithan won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for The Realm of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love Is the Higher Law, How They Met and Other Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

Works

Novels

• 10 Things I Hate About You (Adaptation) (1999)
• Boy Meets Boy (2003)
• The Realm of Possibility (2004)
• Are We There Yet? (2005)
• Marly's Ghost: A Remix of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, illustrated by Brian Selznick (2005)
• Wide Awake (2006)
• How They Met (2008)
• Love is the Higher Law (2009)
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson, co-written with John Green (2010)
• The Lover's Dictionary (2011)
• Every You, Every Me (2011)
• Every Day (2012)
• Invisibility, co-written with Andrea Cremer (2013)
• Two Boys Kissing (2013)
• Another Day (2015)
• Hold Me Closer (2015)
• You Know Me Well, co-written with Nina LaCour (2016)
• Someday (2018)

With Rachel Cohn

• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2006)
• Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2007)
• Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (2010)
• The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily (2016)
• Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah (2018)

With David Ozanich and Chris Van Etten

• Likely Story (2008)
• Likely Story: All That Glitters (2008)
• Likely Story: Red Carpet Riot (2009)

Anthologies and novels edited

• You Are Here, This is Now: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America: A Push Anthology (2002)
• Friends: Stories about New Friends, Old Friends and Unexpectedly True Friends, ed. with Ann M. Martin (2005)
• When We Are, What We See: A Push Anthology (2005)
• The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Other Identities, ed. with Billy Merrell (2006)
• 21 Proms, ed. with Daniel Ehrenhaft (2007)
• We Are Quiet, We Are Loud: The best young writers and artists in America: a Push anthology (2008)
• How to Say Goodbye in Robot, a novel by Natalie Standiford (2009)

Short works

• "The Alumni Interview" (2004), short story in Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday, edited by Megan McCafferty
• "The Good Girls", essay in Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, eds. Melissa De la Cruz and Tom Dolby (2007)
• How They Met, and Other Stories (2008)
• "A Word From the Nearly Distant Past" (2009), story in How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
• "Quiz Bowl Antichrist", story in Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd (2009)
• "The Skeleton Keeper", story in Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt Your Dreams (2010)
• "Your Temporary Santa", story in My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, edited by Stephanie Perkins.

External links

• Official website
• PUSH
• David Levithan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• David Levitan at Library of Congress, with 33 library catalog records