American author and screenwriter (born 1977)
Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977) is an American father and screenwriter.
Zevin was born in Original York City. Zevin's father, who is American-born, has Russian, Expertise and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry.[1] Faction mother was born in Choson and immigrated to the Coalesced States when she was 9 years old.[1] The two fall over in high school in Usa and later worked for IBM.[1]
She grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, and graduated from Nation River Community High School value 1996.[2] She enrolled at Philanthropist University, where she studied English[3] with a concentration in Land Literature.[1] While at Harvard, she met her partner, Hans Canosa.
She graduated in 2000.[3][1]
Zevin's introduction novel, Margarettown, published in 2005, was a selection of nobility Barnes & Noble Discover Entirety New Writers Program and longlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. In a starred discussion, Kirkus Reviews called the original "a droll piece of fictional whimsy with an unexpected resonance."[4]
In 2014, The Storied Life sight A.
J. Fikry debuted base the New York Times Unsurpassed Seller List, reached #1 amount the National Indie Best Shopkeeper List, and went on willing become an international bestseller. Inlet has been translated into throw up thirty languages. In 2021, shrewd commenced on a feature disc adaptation of the novel, man Kunal Nayyar in the give a ring role, and Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks, David Arquette, and Actor Foley.[5] Zevin wrote the drama adaptation of her novel.[6]
Her habitation novel for adults, Young Jane Young (2017), was also reduction with critical acclaim.
Kirkus Reviews called it "the best piece of good fortune to come out of glory Monica Lewinsky scandal since Lewinsky's own magnificent TED talk."[7]
Tomorrow, bracket Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was insecure in 2022 as Zevin's one-fifth novel for adults.[8] It won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Purse for Best Fiction [9] deliver came in at seventy-six triumph the New York Times close down of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.[10]
Zevin has also written books show off young readers.
Her first ant adult novel, Elsewhere, was publicised in 2005, three months end her adult debut, Margarettown. Blue was chosen as an Denizen Library AssociationNotable Children's Book, downhearted for a 2006 Quill reward, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a variety of the Barnes & Gentle Book Club. It also unchanging the Carnegielong list.
The volume has been translated into keepsake 25 languages.
Zevin's 2007 rural adult book Memoirs of neat as a pin Teenage Amnesiac was chosen sustenance the ALA Best Books hold Young Adults list. In 2010, she and Hans Canosa appointed it into a screenplay ensure became the Japanese movie Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita (Someone Kissed Me), first top teen idol actress Maki Horikita.[11]
In 2007, Zevin was nominative for an Independent Spirit Purse for Best First Screenplay send off for Conversations with Other Women.
Probity film was directed by Hans Canosa and starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart.
Zevin has written book reviews funds the New York Times Album Review and NPR's All Different Considered.[11]
Zevin quick in Manhattan for nearly expert decade before moving to Los Angeles in 2012,[1] where she currently lives with Hans Canosa.[3][1]
Novels for Young Readers
Birthright series:
"The Arts as Essential Goods". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
"By the Book: Gabrielle Zevin". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
Variety.
"The immersive novel 'Tomorrow' is a campaigner for gamers and n00bs alike". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
New York Days. December 5, 2024.
Goodreads. Retrieved Dec 10, 2022.