Blake Nelson

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Blake Nelson is an author of adult and children's books. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, United States. He went to Wesleyan University and New York University.

Nelson began his career writing short humor pieces for Details magazine in the mid-nineties. These articles, with titles like "How to Date a Feminist" and "How to Live on $3600 a year", explored the slacker west coast lifestyle.

His first novel Girl was excerpted in Sassy Magazine in three successive issues. The mail Sassy received in response was key to the eventual publication of Girl. It has since been published in eight foreign countries and made into a feature film, Girl. It will be reissued as a Young Adult novel by Simon Pulse in October 2007.

Nelson's novel Paranoid Park was made into a film of the same name by Gus Van Sant. The film won a special 60th Anniversary prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. It will be released in the United States sometime in the spring of 2008.

In June 2007, Nelson's first science fiction novel, They Came from Below, was released.