Cylin Busby

Cylin Busby (born May 1, 1970) is a middle-grade and young adult children's writer, known for the best-selling memoir, The Year We Disappeared, written with her father John Busby.

Early life

Born the youngest of three children (she has two older brothers, Eric Busby and Shawn Busby), Cylin grew up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1979, her police officer father, John Busby, was seriously injured in a shooting.^[1] During the resulting investigation, the family was relocated and lived in hiding for five years. Cylin and John co-wrote a memoir about the experience which went on to become a best seller, placing at #3 on the nonfiction lists for The Wall Street Journal ^[2] and Publishers Weekly.^[3] The book also earned #1 best seller placement on Amazon's nonfiction list. Their memoir was featured on the CBS television program 48 Hours in an episode titled Live to Tell: The Year We Disappeared (original airdate: 2/14/09).^[4]

Education and career

Cylin graduated from Hampshire College (B.A., 1993). Her publishing career began at Random House. She would later work at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster as a children’s book editor. In 1999, she relocated to Los Angeles where she began working as the Senior Editor of Teen Magazine.

Personal

Cylin lives in Los Angeles with her husband, film executive/producer Damon Ross, and their young son. Her latest novel is a YA supernatural thriller titled Blink Once (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Awards and recognition

For The Year We Disappeared

• Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008^[5]
• An IndieBound Next Pick
• Cybils Award, Nonfiction, 2008^[6]
• Georgia Peach Book Award For Teen Readers Nominee
• IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choice
• Texas Taysha Reading List (2010)
• Iowa High School Book Award (2011)

Works

Fiction

• The Chicken Fried Rat (1999)
• Blink Once (2012)

Nonfiction

• Getting Dumped…and Getting Over It (2001)
• Pajama Party Undercover (2003)
• Dream Journey (2003)

Memoir

• The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir, John and Cylin Busby (2008)

Series

• Date Him or Dump Him? (2007)

1. The Campfire Crush
2. The Dance Dilemma
3. Ski Trip Trouble

Anthology

• First Kiss, Then Tell (2008)

Audio book

• The Year We Disappeared, John and Cylin Busby (2012)

Film and television

• 48 Hours “Live to Tell: The Year We Disappeared” (airdate: 2/14/09)

References

External links

• Official website
• The New Yorker
• Los Angeles Review Of Books
• Cylin Busby at Library of Congress Authorities, with 9 catalog records

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