Gabrielle Zevin has published six novels. Her debut, Margarettown, was
a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program.
The Hole We’re In was on Entertainment Weekly’s Must List and was
a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Entertainment Weekly wrote,
“Every day newspaper articles chronicle families battered by the
recession, circling the drain in unemployment and debt or scraping by
with minimum-wage jobs. But no novel has truly captured that struggle
until now.” Publishers Weekly called the novel “a Corrections for
our recessionary times.” Of all her books, she is probably best
known for the young adult novel Elsewhere. Elsewhere, an American
Library Association Notable Children’s Book, was nominated for a
Quill Award and received the Borders Original Voices Award. The book
has been translated into over twenty languages. Of Elsewhere, the New
York Times Book Review wrote, “Every so often a book comes along
with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category
all its own… Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin, is such a book.” She
is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham
Carter, Aaron Eckhart) for which she received an Independent Spirit
Award Nomination. In 2009, she and director Hans Canosa adapted her
novel Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (ALA Best Books for Young Adults)
into the Japanese film, Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita. She has
also written for the New York Times Book Review and NPR’s All Things
Considered. She began her writing career at age fourteen as a music
critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Zevin is a graduate of
Harvard University. After many years on Manhattan’s Upper West Side,
she recently moved to Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Find her online at
gabriellezevin.com.