Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin at the 2013 Texas Book Festival.
Born Gabrielle Zevin
(1977-10-24) 24 October 1977
Occupation Author
Nationality American
Notable work(s) Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
www.gabriellezevin.com

Gabrielle Zevin (born 24 October 1977, New York City) is an American author and screenwriter. She graduated from Harvard in 2000 with a degree in English & American Literature and still lives in New York.

Zevin's first writing job was as a teen music critic for her local newspaper. Her first novel Elsewhere was published in 2005. It was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. It also made the Carnegie long list. The book has been translated into over twenty languages.

In 2007 Zevin was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Conversations with Other Women which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart and was also directed by Hans Canosa.

Bibliography

Adults

  • The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Forthcoming 2014)
  • The Hole We're In (2010)
  • Margarettown (2005)

Young Adults

Standalones

  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (novel) (2007)
  • Elsewhere (2005)

Anya Balanchine Series

  • In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013)
  • Because It Is My Blood (2012)
  • All These Things I've Done (2011)

Note

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac has been made into a Japanese live-action movie

External links

Interviews

Authority control


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