Megan McCafferty
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| Born | 1973 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Writing period | 2001-Present |
| Genres | Chick lit |
Megan McCafferty (born 1973) is a contemporary United States author known for her series of books about Jessica Darling, a witty teenage heroine. These books are often classified as chick lit for young adults.
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[edit] Biography
McCafferty hails from Bayville, New Jersey, and later moved to Princeton, New Jersey and then Brooklyn and Manhattan.[1] She attended Central Regional High School, graduating in 1991.[2] She attended the University of Richmond before transferring to Columbia University to earn a bachelor's degree in English. After graduation, McCafferty worked in magazine publishing as an editor for Cosmopolitan, YM, and Fitness magazines. She began her writing career with writing short stories and articles for various teen magazines.
McCafferty now works as a full-time writer. Her novels include: Sloppy Firsts (2001), Second Helpings (2003), and Charmed Thirds (2006). She has also edited an anthology called Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday that also included a Jessica Darling story, and contributed to A New Dawn, an anthology of essays on the topic of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Jessica Darling novels are written in first-person diary format, and are replete with references to 1980s and current pop culture. The Jessica Darling series follows Jessica through high school into her college years. Her work has been translated into ten languages and has been awarded numerous honors by such associations as the American Library Association and the New York Public Library.
McCafferty keeps what she terms a "retro(blog)" in which she posts actual journal entries from her adolescence, which can be found at her website.
Presently, Megan lives in Princeton, New Jersey. She is at work on Perfect Fifths, the fifth — and final — Jessica Darling novel, which concludes the series. The fourth novel of the series, Fourth Comings, was released on August 7, 2007.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Jessica Darling Series
- Sloppy Firsts (2001)
- Second Helpings (2003)
- Sixteen: Stories about That Sweet and Bitter Birthday (2004) (with Sarah Dessen, Jacqueline Woodson, Carolyn Mackler, Steve Almond, M.T. Anderson, Julianna Baggott, Cat Bauer, Emma Forrest, Tanuja Desai Hidier, David Levithan, Sarah Mlynowski, Sonya Sones, Zoe Trope, Ned Vizzini and Joseph Weisberg)
- Charmed Thirds (2006)
- Fourth Comings (2007)
[edit] Other Works
- A New Dawn: Your Favorite Authors on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series, edited by Ellen Hopkins
[edit] See also
- Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard student accused of plagiarizing McCafferty's works
[edit] References
- ^ Ervolino, Bill. "Jessica's a step behind her author", The Record, September 9, 2007. Accessed December 28, 2007. "Like her heroine, McCafferty knows her way around the Garden State, having grown up in Bayville before moving to Brooklyn and Manhattan and then getting married and settling in ... Princeton."
- ^ "Darling author returns to Berkeley", Asbury Park Press, September 25, 2007. "BERKELEY: Author Megan McCafferty, a 1991 Central Regional High School graduate, will visit the township branch of the Ocean County Library at 7 pm today."
