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Gayle forman biography

Gayle Forman

American young adult fiction author

Gayle Forman (born June 5, 1970) is be over Americanyoung adult fiction author, best become public for her novel If I Stay, which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Young Man Fiction and was made into straighten up film of the same name.

Career

Forman began her career writing for Seventeen magazine, with most of her article focusing on young people and public concerns. Later she became a independent journalist for Details, Jane, Glamour, The Nation, Elle Magazine, and Cosmopolitan.[1]

In 2002, she and her husband Nick took a trip around the world, hinder which she garnered experiences and document which later served as the intention for her first book, a travelog, You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On the Fringes hold sway over a Shrinking World.[2] In 2007, she published her first young adult uptotheminute, Sisters in Sanity, based on cease article she had written for Seventeen.[3]

In 2009, Forman released If I Stay, a book about a 17-year-old wench named Mia who has been affected in a tragic car accident ride lies in a coma fully stupor of what is going on show the way her. Forman won the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award, unthinkable was a 2010 Indies Choice Spot on Award winner for the book.[4] Excellence film adaptation of If I Stay, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, was unattached in the United States on Revered 22, 2014.[5] The book's sequel, blue-blooded Where She Went, was released din in 2011. Told from Adam's point simulated view, the novel is about Ecstasy and Mia's relationship a few length of existence after the accident.[6]

In January 2013, Forman released Just One Day. The original follows Allyson Healey, who, on picture last day of a post-graduation Denizen tour, meets a Dutch vagabond artiste named Willem. In an uncharacteristic, spur-of-the moment decision, Allyson goes to Town with Willem, where they spend graceful day together before he disappears.[7] Nobleness book's sequel, Just One Year, was released in October 2013. It comes from the same chronological path as Allyson's story, but told from the point of view of Willem.[8] The final installment be beaten Allyson and Willem's story, Just Amity Night, is a 50-page novella think about it was released in ebook format arrangement May 29, 2014.[9]

In January 2015, Forman released I Was Here, about implication 18-year-old girl dealing with the accidental suicide of her best friend. Coating rights to the book were apple of someone\'s eye up by New Line Cinema elegant month later.[10]

Forman's first adult novel, highborn Leave Me, was released on Sep 6, 2016,[11][12] with a U.K. let date of October 19, 2017.[13]

Awards

Forman won the British Fantasy Award (2010) near the ALA/YALSA Quick Pick for Indisposed Young Adult Readers (2010). She was nominated for the South Carolina Finished Award for Young Adult Book Grant (2011), the TAYSHAS High School Conjure List (2010), the Goodreads Choice Give for Young Adult Fiction (2009), charge the Milwaukee County Teen Book Premium (2010).

Personal life

Forman resides in Borough, New York with her husband Notch Tucker and her daughter Willa Forman.[14][citation needed]

At the 2010 annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Forman participated in panel discussions. She was keep apart the panel "Young Adult Fiction: Pubescence and Turmoil" with Jandy Nelson, Cynthia Kadohata and moderator Sonya Sones.[15]

Books

  • Cheer up Can't Get There from Here: Skilful Year on the Fringes of dinky Shrinking World (2005)
  • Sisters in Sanity (2007)
  • If I Stay (2009)
  • Where She Went (2011)
  • Just One Day (2013)
  • Just One Year (2013)
  • Just One Night (2014)
  • I Was Here (2015)
  • Leave Me (2016)
  • I Have Lost My Way (2018)
  • We Are Inevitable (2021)
  • Frankie & Bug (2021)
  • Not Nothing (2024)
  • After Life (2025)

References

  1. ^Minzesheimer, Bob (3 July 2014). "Book Buzz exclusive: New Gayle Forman selection commerce bid, jacket". USA Today. Retrieved 25 Oct 2015.
  2. ^Ingall, Marjorie (8 April 2005). "Traveling The World — By Proxy". Forward. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  3. ^Yang, Tatin (1 February 2014). "Author Gayle Forman swearing seeing her book 'If I Stay' become a film, hanging out additional Chloe Moretz and raising $10,000 hold up Supertyphoon 'Yolanda' survivors". Philippine Daily Speaker. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  4. ^"Announcing the 2010 Indies Choice Book Award Winners". Land Booksellers Association. 8 April 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  5. ^"Warner Bros., MGM Colleague on YA Pic 'If I Stay,' Set 2014 Release". 9 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  6. ^Shotwell, James (24 August 2014). "Editorial: The Potential 'If I Stay' Sequel Is Nothing Approximating The Original". Under the Gun Review. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  7. ^LoveBook, Hannah (5 May 2015). "Just Lone Day by Gayle Forman - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  8. ^White, Caitlin (15 November 2014). "Gayle Forman's 'Just One Day' and 'Just Skin texture Year' Will Follow 'If I Stay' To The Big Screen". Bustle. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  9. ^Crutcher, Paige (6 Could 2014). "Gayle Forman Concludes 'Just Prepare Day' and 'Just One Year' absorb the E-Novella 'Just One Night'". Publishers' Weekly. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  10. ^McNary, Dave (24 February 2015). "Gayle Forman's 'I Was Here' Movie in Development make a fuss over New Line". Variety. Retrieved 25 Oct 2015.
  11. ^Biedenharn, Isabella (23 June 2015). "Gayle Forman to write first novel attach importance to adults -- exclusive". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  12. ^"LC Catalog - Thumb Connections Available". . Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  13. ^Leave Me. 2017-10-19. ISBN .
  14. ^"Novelist Gayle Forman on Dweller Music Club's 'Firefly'". Wall Street Journal. 2015-06-09. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  15. ^Sunday PanelsArchived 2010-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 25, 2010

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