Blake Nelson

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[edit] Biography

Blake Nelson (b. 1965) grew up in Portland, Oregon and attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. His first love was books but he spent several years in his teens and twenties playing in bands.

Blake's first writing job after college was at Details Magazine where he wrote short humor pieces on the slacker lifestyle. At the same time Sassy Magazine began publishing excerpts from his first novel.

These excerpts generated enough response to get his first novel GIRL published by Simon and Schuster. GIRL (1994) has since been translated into six foreign languages and was made into a feature film, Girl (1998) starring Dominique Swain, Summer Phoenix, Selma Blair and Tara Reid.

After GIRL, Nelson published two more adult novels, EXILE (1997) and USER (2001). In 2003 he wrote his first Young Adult novel, THE NEW RULES OF HIGH SCHOOL. Since then he has published five YA novels, NEW RULES, ROCKSTAR SUPERSTAR, PROM ANONYMOUS, GENDER BLENDER, PARANOID PARK and THEY CAME FROM BELOW.

His books have won numerous awards and continue to be translated around the world. A TV movie for GENDER BLENDER is currently in development at Nickelodeon. And PARANOID PARK, has been made into a film by Gus Van Sant and will be released in the U.S. in December, 2007.

Blake Nelson currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

[edit] Bibliography:

• Girl, Simon and Schuster, 1994, (re-issue 2007)
• Exile, Scribners, 1997
• User, Versus Press, 2001
• The New Rules of High School, Viking-Penguin, 2003
• Rock Star Superstar, Viking-Penguin, 2005
• Prom Anonymous, Viking-Penguin, 2006
• Gender Blender, Random House, 2006
• Paranoid Park, Viking-Penguin, 2006
• They Came From Below, Tor Books, 2007