Jenny Han

Jenny Han
Han in September 2010
Born	Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American[1]
Alma mater	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Genre	Young adult fiction
Website
dearjennyhan.com

Jenny Han is an American author of young adult fiction. She wrote the Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy and the To All the Boys I've Loved Before series.

Early life & education

Han was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia and has one younger sister. After high school, Han went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,^[2] and later earned her MFA in creative writing at The New School,^[3] where she met fellow young adult novelists Morgan Matson and Siobhan Vivian; the latter of which she would go on to co-write the Burn for Burn series with. Han resides in Brooklyn, New York.^[2]

Publication history

Han wrote her first published book, Shug, while she was in college.^[4] Shug is about Annemarie Wilcox, a twelve-year-old trying to navigate the perils of junior high school. Publishers Weekly said of the novel, "With its distinct Southern flavor, its presentation of universal conflicts and a cast of characters sure to be recognizable to readers, this book will likely draw a wide audience."^[5]

Her next project was a trilogy for young adults about a girl's coming-of-age during summers. The trilogy, which includes The Summer I Turned Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You and We'll Always Have Summer, quickly became a Best Seller on The New York Times list.^[6]

In 2011, Han began working on a new young adult series with fellow writer Siobhan Vivian about three high school girls who begin a mission to exact revenge on people who wronged them. According to Han, she and Vivian "have been [best friends] and writing buddies for years ... We've always traded our own pages back and forth, so this is a pretty natural progression for us."^[4]

She released a young adult romance novel in 2014, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, about Lara Jean Song Covey, a half-Korean, half-Caucasian high school student whose life turns upside down when the letters she's written to all the boys she's had crushes on get sent out.^[7] Kirkus Reviews said of the book, "An ultimately compelling exploration of teenage growth and young love."^[8] Han embarked on a national book tour for To All the Boys I've Loved Before. The sequel, P.S. I Still Love You, was released the following year and was met with another national book tour. Additionally, the book won the Young Adult 2015–2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.^[9] A third book about Lara Jean, Always and Forever, Lara Jean, was released in 2017.^[10]

Bibliography

Han with a copy of her novel To All the Boys I've Loved Before in April 2014

Children's books

• Shug (2006) ISBN 978-1416909422
• Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream (2011) ISBN 978-0316070386

The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy

• The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009) ISBN 978-1416968238
• It's Not Summer Without You (2010) ISBN 978-1416995555
• We'll Always Have Summer (2011) ISBN 978-1416995586

Burn for Burn trilogy

• Burn for Burn (2012) ISBN 978-1442440753
• Fire with Fire (2013) ISBN 978-1442440784
• Ashes to Ashes (2014) ISBN 978-1442440814

To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy

• To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2014) ISBN 978-1442426702
• P.S. I Still Love You (2015) ISBN 978-1442426733
• Always and Forever, Lara Jean (2017) ISBN 978-1481430487

Short stories

• "Polaris Is Where You'll Find Me" in My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories (2014) ISBN 978-1250059307

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jenny Han.

• Jenny Han on IMDb