Gabrielle Zevin

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Author · Born Oct 24, 1977 · American · Female

Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977, New York City) is an American author and screenwriter. 2Writing Zevin's first novel Elsewhere was published in 2005. It was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. It also made the Carnegie long list. The book has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2007 Zevin was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Conversations with Other Women which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart and was also directed by Hans Canosa. In 2014, her eighth novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List. 2Personal life Zevin graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a degree in English & American Literature and lives in Los Angeles. Zevin's father is a Russian-Jewish American, and her mother is Korean. 2Bibliography 3Adults The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014) The Hole We're In (2010) Margarettown (2005) 3Young Adults 4Standalones Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (novel) (2007) Elsewhere (2005) 4Anya Balanchine Series In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013) Because It Is My Blood (2012) All These Things I've Done (2011) 2Note Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac has been made into a Japanese live-action movie of the same nam