Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell
Born 1973 (age 41–42) [1]
Nebraska, USA
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Period 2011–present
Genre Young adult, Fiction
Website
rainbowrowell.com

Rainbow Rowell is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park and Fangirl both received a great deal of critical acclaim in 2013. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.

Career

Rowell was a columnist and ad copywriter at the Omaha World-Herald from 1995 to 2012. [2]

After leaving the Omaha World Herald, Rowell began working for an ad agency and writing what would become her first published novel, Attachments, as a pastime.[3] Rowell had a baby during this period and stopped working on the manuscript for two years.[3] The novel, a contemporary romantic comedy about a company's IT guy who falls in love with a woman whose email he has been monitoring, was published in 2011. Kirkus Reviews listed it as one of the outstanding debuts that year.[4]

In 2013 Rowell published two young adult novels: Eleanor & Park and Fangirl. Both were named by The New York Times as among the best young adult fiction of the year.[5] Eleanor & Park was also chosen by Amazon as one of the 10 best books of 2013,[6] and as Goodreads' best young adult fiction of the year.[7] DreamWorks and Carla Hacken are planning a movie based on the novel, for which Rowell has been asked to write the screenplay.[8]

Rowell completed the first draft of Fangirl for National Novel Writing Month in 2011.[9] It was chosen as the inaugural selection for Tumblr's reblog book club.[10]

Rowell's work gained some attention in 2013 when a parents' group at a Minnesota high school challenged Eleanor & Park and Rowell was disinvited to a library event; a panel ultimately determined that the book could stay on library shelves.[11] Rowell noted in an interview that the material that these parents were calling "profane" was what many kids in difficult situations realistically had to deal with, and that "when these people call Eleanor & Park an obscene story, I feel like they’re saying that rising above your situation isn’t possible."[12]"

Rowell's fourth novel, Landline, a contemporary adult novel about a marriage in trouble, was released on July 8, 2014.[13][14] Rowell has signed a two-book deal with First Second to author two young adult graphic novels, the first of which will be illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks.[15]

Rowell announced in December 2014 that her fifth book, Carry On, based on the book series central to the plot of Fangirl, will be published in October 2015.[16]

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-04-21-buzzplus21_ST_N.htm
  2. ↑ Solem-Pfeifer, Chance. "Q&A: Rainbow Rowell transitions from newspaper columns to novels". Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ford, Ashley C. "How Rainbow Rowell Turned A Bomb Into A Best-Selling Novel". BuzzFeed Books. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Outstanding Debuts of 2011". Kirkus Reviews. 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Schulten, Katherine (December 4, 2013). "What Are the Best Things You’ve Read, Watched, Heard or Played This Year?". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  6. ↑ Deutsch, Lindsay (November 7, 2013). "Amazon releases its 10 best books of 2013". USA Today. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  7. ↑ Willett, Megan (December 3, 2013). "The Best New Books Of The Year, According To Goodreads". Business Insider. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  8. ↑ Elavksy, Cindy (27 April 2014). "Celebrity Extra". King Features. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  9. ↑ Kellogg, Carolyn (December 3, 2013). "NaNoWriMo results: 42,008 new novels written in November". The LA Times. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  10. ↑ Kellogg, Carolyn (September 10, 2013). "Tumblr launches book club. Watch out, 'Today' show". The LA Times. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  11. ↑ Prather, Shannon (November 22, 2013). "Challenged book to stay on Anoka High library shelves". The Star Tribune. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  12. ↑ Ortberg, Mallory (September 14, 2013). "A Chat With Rainbow Rowell About Love and Censorship". The Toast. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  13. ↑ "Rainbow Rowell". Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  14. ↑ Rowell, Rainbow. RainbowRowell.com http://rainbowrowell.com/blog/book/landline/. Retrieved 12 August 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ↑ Brissey, Breia (January 30, 2014). "Rainbow Rowell signs two-book deal with First Second -- EXCLUSIVE". Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  16. ↑ "Rainbow Rowell’s Next Book Carry On is a Fangirl Spinoff Starring Simon Snow". Tor.com. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.

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