| Neal Shusterman | |
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| Born | Neal Shusterman November 12, 1962 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
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Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is a popular and successful American author of Young Adult literature.
Shusterman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Even from a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. At age 8, Shusterman sent a letter to E. B. White, informing him that he believed Charlotte's Web needed a sequel. White replied, stating that he thought the book was fine as it was, requiring no sequel, but encouraged Shusterman to continue writing. At age 16, Shusterman and his family moved to Mexico City.[1] He finished high school there and quotes, "Having an international experience changed my life, giving me a fresh perspective on the world, and a sense of confidence I might not have otherwise." He attended the University of California, Irvine, where he double-majored in psychology and theater, and was also on the varsity swim team. During his years there, he wrote a popular humor column for the school paper. After college, he got a job as an assistant at Irvin Arthur Associates, a talent agency in Los Angeles, where Lloyd Segan became his agent. Within a year, Shusterman had his first book deal, and a screenwriting job. He currently lives in Southern California with his four children.[2]
Shusterman won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for The Schwa Was Here, and most recently the book won the 2008 California Young Reader Medal. Some of his other novels include The Dark Side of Nowhere, Red Rider's Hood, What Daddy Did, The Shadow Club, The Shadow Club Rising, The Eyes of Kid Midas, and the Star Shards Chronicles trilogy: Scorpion Shards, Thief of Souls, and Shattered Sky. His novels Downsiders and Full Tilt, have each won over 20 awards. One of his more recent novels is Everlost, which he is now adapting for a feature film for Universal Studios. Shusterman's latest novels are Unwind (2007) and Antsy Does Time (2008), which is a sequel to his book The Schwa was Here. His most recent release is Everfound (2011) which is the sequel to Everwild, and is the third and final book of the Skinjacker Trilogy.[3] He can be found on Facebook and Twitter as simply "nealshusterman."
Shusterman has also written for TV, including the Original Disney Channel movie Pixel Perfect, as well as episodes of Goosebumps and Animorphs.[2]
Shusterman was invited by Orson Scott Card to write novels parallel to Ender's Game about other characters from the series, but eventually Card decided to use the idea himself, and wrote Ender's Shadow and the following series.[4]
Fiction Series
Dark Fusion
1 Dread Locks (2005)
2 Red Rider's Hood (2005)
3 Duckling Ugly (2006)
Darkness Creeping
Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales (2007) [C]
1 Neal Shusterman's Darkness Creeping: Tales to Trouble Your Sleep (1993) [C]
2 Neal Shusterman's Darkness Creeping II: More Tales to Trouble Your Sleep (1995) [C]
Skinjacker Trilogy
1 Everlost (2006)
2 Everwild (2009)
3 Everfound (2011)
Star Shards
1 The Scorpion Shards (1995)
2 Thief of Souls (1999)
3 Shattered Sky (2002)
The X-Files Universe
The X-Files Young Adult Series
3 Bad Sign (1997) [only as by Easton Royce ]
10 Dark Matter (1999) [only as by Easton Royce ]
The X-Files Young Readers Series
8 Voltage (1996) [only as by Easton Royce ]
Novels
Dissidents (1989) Speeding Bullet (1991) What Daddy Did (1991) The Eyes of Kid Midas (1992) Piggyback Ninja (1994) The Aliens Approach (1996) [only as by Easton Royce ] Mutiny (1996) [only as by Easton Royce ] The Dark Side of Nowhere (1997) Downsiders (1999) Full Tilt (2003) Unwind (2007)
Collections
Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain (1996) Mindstorms: Stories to Blow Your Mind (1996) Mindtwisters: Stories To Shred Your Head (1997) Mindbenders: Stories to Warp Your Brain (2000)
Nonfiction Series
How To Host A Murder
Tragical Mystery Tour (1998)
Maiming of the Shrew (2003)
How to Host a Teen Mysteries
Roswell That Ends Well (2003)
Nonfiction
It's Ok to Say No to Cigarettes and Alcohol (1988) Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story (1989) with Cherie Currie Kid Heroes: True Stories of Rescuers, Survivors, and Achievers (1991)
Shortfiction
Same Time Next Year (1993) Screaming at the Wall (1993) Flushie (1993) Monkeys Tonight (1993) Resting Deep (1993) Black Box (1993) Alexander's Skull (1993) Not It (1993) Car Four (1993) Crystalloid (1995) An Ear for Music (1995) Trash Day (1995) Soul Survivor (1995) Riding the Raptor (1995) Security Blanket (1995) Connecting Flight (1995) Growing Pains (1995) Yardwork (1996) Caleb's Colors (1996) Ralphy Sherman's Jacuzzi of Wonders (1996) Number Two (1996) The Soul Exchange (1996) Damien's Shadow (1996) Terrible Tannenbaum (1996) Dead Letter (1996) Boy on a Stoop (1996) Retaining Walls (1996) Dark Alley (1997) The In Crowd (1997) Special Deliverance (1997) Mr. Vandermeer's Attic of Shame (1997) Pea Soup (1997) The Elsewhere Botique (1997) Ralphy Sherman's Bag of Wind (1997) Loveless (1997) The Bob Squad (2000) The Living Place (2000) Ralphy Sherman's Patty Melt on Rye (2000) Open House (2000) Mail Merge (2000) The Peter Pan Solution (2000) The Body Electric (2000) Bad Fortune at Wong Lee's (2000) Obsidian Sky (2000) Majority Rules (2006) Catching Cold (2007) Who Do We Appreciate? (2007) The River Tour (2007) Ralphy Sherman's Root Canal (2007) Perpetual Pest (2010) with Terry Black
Poems
Shadows of Doubt (1993)
Essays
Afterword: Where They Came From (Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain) (1996) Where They Came From (2000) Foreword (Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales) (2007)