Lizzie Skurnick
Lizzie Skurnick is a writer, critic and editor.[1] In 2007, she started Jezebel's Fine Lines column, "the feature in which we give a wrinkled look at the books we loved as youth," which she wrote until 2009.[1][2][3] Shelf Discovery, her book on young adult fiction of her youth, appeared from Harper Collins in 2009.[4]
Her YA publishing imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books, was founded in 2013.[1][5] The press's classic YA reprints have been praised by The Boston Globe,[6] The New York Times [7] many other publications and organizations.[8] The press's first original book, Isabel's War, published in 2014, received praise from The Wall Street Journal and other critical outlets and the Association of Jewish Libraries named it a Sydney Taylor Honor Book (second to the first prize winner).[9][10][11]
Skurnick's "That Should Be a Word" column appeared weekly in The New York Times Magazine's One Page Magazine from 2011 to 2014.[12] Her coinages have been praised and/or used by Bust Magazine,[13] Salon,[14] and ABC affiliates,[15] among others. The Mets' Ron Darling suggested his own addition to the series.[16] Skurnick's That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World, inspired by and expanding upon the column, was published by Workman in April 2015.[16]
Skurnick first became known as the founder of a litblog.[17]
Personal life
Skurnick identifies as black and Jewish.[18]
References
- ^ a b c "Lois Duncan: Revisiting the Classics of an Earlier Generation". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Jezebel's "Fine Lines" Feature Gets Picked Up By HarperCollins In First Non-Gawker Gawker Book Deal". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Fine Lines". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Books That Helped Us Grow Up". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Did The Cat Eat Your Gymsuit? Then These Books Are For You". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Reviving the All-of-a-Kind Family books". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Look Homeward, Reader: A Not-So-Young Audience for Young Adult Books". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "'All-of-a-Kind Family' Series Getting Reissued". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Out of Harm's Way: An American girl must share her room with a 14-year-old German refugee whom everyone else seems to adore". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Isabel's War Gets a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "2015 Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced by AJL" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "That Should Be a Word". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "There IS A Word For That! Check Out Writer Lizzie Skurnick's Hilarious Website". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Welcome to generation "fidgital": The New York Times introduces a new word -- and pegs a new problem". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "10 words you should add to your vocabulary".
- ^ a b "Mets' Ron Darling Pitches 'That Should Be a Word' Submission". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Lizzie Skurnick: Book Critic". Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Harper Lee's Depiction of 'Polarization In A Southern Town' Defines Legacy". Retrieved 2015-02-22.