Julianna Baggott

Baggott in 2013.

Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is a novelist, essayist and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's Creative Writing Program.^[1]

Life

Baggott has published eighteen books over the last twelve years. Her most recent novel Pure ^[2] the first in a dystopian trilogy, was published by Grand Central Publishing;^[3] film rights have been acquired by Fox 2000. The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted,^[4] published under pen name Asher, was published in spring of 2011. To date, there approximately fifty foreign editions of her novels.

Baggott began publishing when she was twenty-two. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, Girl Talk,^[5] while she was still in her twenties. Girl Talk was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family,^[6] and then Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam,^[7] a historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You^[8] with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews) optioned by producer Richard Brown and adapted by Keith Bunin.

She has published three books under the pen name Bridget Asher—My Husband's Sweethearts,^[9] The Pretend Wife, and The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted.^[4]

She also writes bestselling novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode^[10] as well as under Julianna Baggott. The Anybodies^[11] trilogy was a People Magazine pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girls' Life Top Ten, a Booksense selection, and was in development at Nickelodeon/Paramount; The Slippery Map^[12] (fall 2007), and the prequel to Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007), a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. For two years, Bode was a recurring personality on Sirius XM Radio.

Julianna's Boston Red Sox novel The Prince of Fenway Park^[13] (HarperCollins), was published in spring 2009. The Ever Breath^[14] (Random House) was published in December 2009.

Baggott has also published three collections of poetry (This Country of Mothers,^[15] Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees,^[16] and Lizzie Borden in Love^[17]) and has been published in major literary publications, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and The Best American Poetry.

Baggott's work has appeared in AGNI,^[18] The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Glamour, Ms., Real Simple, and read on NPR's Here and Now and Talk of the Nation. Her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized.

She lives in Florida with her husband writer David G.W. Scott and their four kids. In 2006, Baggott and her husband co-founded the nonprofit organization Kids in Need-Books in Deed,^[19] which focuses on literacy and getting free books to underprivileged children in the state of Florida.^[20]

Awards

• Delaware Division of Arts fellowship
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowship
• Ragdale Foundation fellowship
• Bread Loaf Writers' Conference fellowship^[21]

Work online

• "Pep Talk from Julianna Baggott", National Novel Writing Month, November 2009
• Hello, Stranger, an essay in Real Simple
• Playing Role Reversal with My Therapist, an essay in The New York Times
• The key to literary success? Be a man--or write like one., an essay in The Washington Post
• "Mary Todd on her Deathbed", a poem on TheAtlantic.com
• "Monica Lewinsky thinks of Bill Clinton While Standing Naked in Front of a Hotel Mirror," a poem on TheAtlantic.com
• "My Mother's National Geographics," a poem archived at The Virginia Quarterly Review
• "My Cousin Attempts Suicide In Gander Hill Prison," a poem archived at The Virginia Quarterly Review
• "Blurbs," a poem, published in The Southern Review
• "Nights in Tiajuana," a poem, published in The Southern Review
• "What the poets could have been," a poem, published in The Southern Review

Novels

• Girl Talk. Simon and Schuster. 2001. ISBN 978-0-7434-2143-0. ; excerpt
• The Miss America Family. Simon and Schuster. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7434-2673-2. ; excerpt
• The Madam. Atria Books. 2003. ISBN 978-0-7434-5457-5. ; excerpt
• Which brings me to you: a novel in confessions. Algonquin Books, 2006. ISBN 978-1-56512-443-1. ; excerpt co-authored with Steve Almond
• 's+sweethearts&hl=en&ei=G7EVTqLeBMrV0QHir7lI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false My Husband's Sweethearts. Random House Digital. 2008. ISBN 978-0-385-34189-9. ; excerpt under pen name Bridget Asher
• The Pretend Wife. Random House Publishing Group. 2009. ISBN 978-0-385-34191-2. ; excerpt
• The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted. Allen & Unwin. 2011. ISBN 978-1-74237-642-4. ; excerpt under pen name Bridget Asher
• Pure. Grand Central Publishing. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4555-0306-3.  excerpt

Novels for young readers

• The Anybodies. Illustrator Peter Ferguson. HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-055735-5. ; excerpt Trilogy under pen name N.E. Bode
• The Slippery Map. Illustrator Brandon Dorman. HarperCollins. 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-079108-7. ; excerpt under pen name N.E. Bode
• The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium. Scholastic. 2007. ISBN 978-0-439-91636-3. ; under pen name N.E. Bode^[22]
• The Prince of Fenway Park. HarperCollins. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-087242-7. ; excerpt
• The Ever Breath. Random House Digital. 2009. ISBN 978-0-385-73761-6. ; excerpt

Collections of poetry

• This country of mothers. SIU Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8093-2381-4. ; excerpt
• Compulsions of silkworms & bees. LSU Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8071-3256-2. ; excerpt
• Lizzie Borden in love: poems in women's voices. SIU Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8093-2725-6. ; excerpt

References

External links

• Author's blog

Interviews Online

• Did Publishers Overlook Women Writers an interview on NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin.
• Magical Things: An Interview with Julianna Baggott at PopMatters
• An Interview with Julianna Baggott and Steve Almond at Bookslut
• Mothers Who Write: Julianna Baggott an interview by Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D.
• Poetic Asides interview with Robert Lee Brewer
• Derek Alger (April 1, 2011). "Julianna Baggott interviewed". pif Magazine.