Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin | |
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 Gabrielle Zevin signs The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry at Vroman's Bookstore, April 2014. | |
| Born | Gabrielle Zevin October 24, 1977 |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Elsewhere, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry |
Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977, New York City) is an American author and screenwriter.
Writing
Zevin's first novel Elsewhere was published in 2005. It was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. It also made the Carnegie long list. The book has been translated into over twenty languages.
In 2007 Zevin was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Conversations with Other Women which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart and was also directed by Hans Canosa.
In 2014, her eighth novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List.
Personal life
Zevin graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a degree in English & American Literature and lives in Los Angeles.[1]
Zevin's father is a Russian-Jewish American, and her mother is Korean.[2][3]
Bibliography
Adults
- Young Jane Young (2017)
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014)
- The Hole We're In (2010)
- Margarettown (2005)
Young adults
Standalones
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (novel) (2007)
- Elsewhere (2005)
Anya Balanchine series
- In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013)
- Because It Is My Blood (2012)
- All These Things I've Done (2011)
Note
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac has been made into a Japanese live-action movie of the same name.
Interviews
- "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Teenreads.com Interview about Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, 09/07
- "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Teenreads.com Interview about Elsewhere, 09/30/05
- "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Bildungsroman, 1/28/08
- "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Estella's Revenge, 9/1/07
- "Seven Impossible Interviews Before Breakfast #55 (Winter Blog Blast Tour Edition): Gabrielle Zevin" Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, 11/9/07
References
- ^ "Gabrielle Zevin's Official Website". Retrieved March 29, 2014.
- ^ "In 'Storied Life,' Characters Come With A Reading List". NPR. March 28, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ Werris, Wendy (November 8, 2013). "By the Book: Gabrielle Zevin". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
External links
- Gabrielle Zevin's Official Website
- Gabrielle Zevin at IMDb
- Farrar Straus Giroux's Elsewhere website
- Teenreads Author Profile
- Barnes & Noble's Meet the Writers profile
- The New York Times Book Review of Elsewhere
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American writers of Korean descent
- American women novelists
- Harvard University alumni
- Writers from New York City
- American women of Korean descent
- Novelists from New York (state)
- American novelist, 1970s birth stubs