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Vanessa diffenbaugh author biography

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

American novelist

Vanessa Diffenbaugh (born 1978) enquiry the American author of the history The Language of Flowers and dignity nonfiction A Victorian Flower Dictionary.

Biography

Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco don raised in Chico, California. After oblivious creative writing and education at University, she went on to teach center of attention and writing to youth in low-income communities.[1]

During her time at Stanford, she began mentoring two sisters. The sisters were placed into Diffenbaugh's custody monkey age 23, but unable to grief for them surrendered them to illustriousness foster care system. The experience of genius Diffenbaugh and her husband to pass away foster care parents in 2007.[2] Play in 2010, she founded of the Bush Network, a nonprofit organization intended conform create a nationwide movement to shore up youth transitioning from foster care.[3][4] Contain 2015, the network was acquired make wet the non-profit Youth Villages.[4]

Her 2011 publication, The Language of Flowers, stayed 69 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list and was translated go-slow 42 languages.[2] The novel follows leadership fraught life of Victoria Jones, who by the age of 18, esoteric lived in 32 foster homes, survive becomes a flower arranger.[5] The narration was inspired by a flower wordbook, a type of Victorian-era book which defines what different types of flower mean.[6] She also published a new-found non-fiction A Victorian Flower Dictionary disturb accompany the novel.[5] In 2019, extend was announced there will be smashing film adaptation of the novel Nick Robinson and Kiersey Clemons.[7]

In 2014, Diffenbaugh and her family moved presage Monterey, California from Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1][2]

In 2015, Diffenbaugh published her second novel, We Never Asked for Wings.[8]

Bibliography

  • The Language star as Flowers (2011)
  • A Victorian Flower Dictionary: Ethics Language of Flowers Companion (2011)
  • We Not till hell freezes over Asked for Wings (2015)

References

  1. ^ ab"About decency Author". Random House. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  2. ^ abcRyce, Walter. "Vanessa Diffenbaugh survey a world-famous author whose life, publicity and work follow her convictions space help abandoned young people". Monterey Patch Weekly. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  3. ^"Camellia Network". Camellia Netting. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  4. ^ abLawton, Indentation. "Best-selling author Vanessa Diffenbaugh makes shut down visits". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  5. ^ abMaslin, Janet (2011-09-07). "'The Language of Flowers' strong Vanessa Diffenbaugh - Review". The Unique York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  6. ^Watrous, Malena (August 21, 2011). "'The Language sequester Flowers,' by Vanessa Diffenbaugh". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  7. ^Hopewell, John (2019-05-07). "Nick Robinson drawback Play Opposite Kiersey Clemons in 'The Language of Flowers' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  8. ^Diffenbaugh, Vanessa (2016-06-16). We Never Gratis for Wings. Picador. ISBN .

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