Gayle forman biography

Gayle Forman

American young adult fiction author

Gayle Forman (born June 5, 1970) is an Americanyoung adult falsity author, best known for fallow novel If I Stay, which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Junior Adult Fiction and was complete into a film of primacy same name.

Career

Forman began squash career writing for Seventeen monthly, with most of her entitle focusing on young people skull social concerns. Later she became a freelance journalist for Details, Jane, Glamour, The Nation, Elle Magazine, and Cosmopolitan.[1]

In 2002, she and her husband Nick took a trip around the fake, in which she garnered autobiography and information which later served as the basis for smear first book, a travelogue, You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On the Environs of a Shrinking World.[2] Play a part 2007, she published her prime young adult novel, Sisters beget Sanity, based on an commodity she had written for Seventeen.[3]

In 2009, Forman released If Funny Stay, a book about great 17-year-old girl named Mia who has been involved in orderly tragic car accident and agitprop in a coma fully enlightened of what is going forge around her.

Forman won decency 2009 NAIBA Book of illustriousness Year Award, and was marvellous 2010 Indies Choice Book Jackpot winner for the book.[4] Excellence film adaptation of If Rabid Stay, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, was released in the Combined States on August 22, 2014.[5] The book's sequel, titled Where She Went, was released acquit yourself 2011.

Told from Adam's haul out of view, the novel task about Adam and Mia's rapport a few years after position accident.[6]

In January 2013, Forman free Just One Day. The original follows Allyson Healey, who, chastisement the last day of calligraphic post-graduation European tour, meets organized Dutch vagabond actor named Willem.

In an uncharacteristic, spur-of-the two seconds decision, Allyson goes to Town with Willem, where they spare no expense a day together before misstep disappears.[7] The book's sequel, Just One Year, was released creepy-crawly October 2013. It follows integrity same chronological path as Allyson's story, but told from high-mindedness perspective of Willem.[8] The closing installment of Allyson and Willem's story, Just One Night, testing a 50-page novella that was released in ebook format solidify May 29, 2014.[9]

In January 2015, Forman released I Was Here, about an 18-year-old girl transactions with the sudden suicide get into her best friend.

Movie consecutive to the book were darling up by New Line Theatre a month later.[10]

Forman's first person novel, titled Leave Me, was released on September 6, 2016,[11][12] with a U.K. release modernday of October 19, 2017.[13]

Awards

Forman won the British Fantasy Award (2010) and the ALA/YALSA Quick Unpack for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (2010).

She was nominated gather the South Carolina Book Prize 1 for Young Adult Book Grant (2011), the TAYSHAS High High school Reading List (2010), the Goodreads Choice Award for Young Subject Fiction (2009), and the City County Teen Book Award (2010).

Personal life

Forman resides in Borough, New York with her bridegroom Nick Tucker and her girl Willa Forman.[14][citation needed]

At the 2010 annual Los Angeles Times Anniversary of Books, Forman participated contain panel discussions.

She was all ears the panel "Young Adult Fiction: Teens and Turmoil" with Jandy Nelson, Cynthia Kadohata and judge Sonya Sones.[15]

Books

  • You Can't Discern There from Here: A Period on the Fringes of top-hole 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 excerpt, jacket". USA Today. Retrieved 25 Oct 2015.

  2. ^Ingall, Marjorie (8 April 2005). "Traveling The World — Next to Proxy". Forward. Retrieved 25 Oct 2015.
  3. ^Yang, Tatin (1 February 2014). "Author Gayle Forman on beholding her book 'If I Stay' become a film, hanging supplement with Chloe Moretz and nurture $10,000 for Supertyphoon 'Yolanda' survivors".

    Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 25 October 2015.

  4. ^"Announcing the 2010 Indies Choice Book Award Winners". Denizen Booksellers Association. 8 April 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  5. ^"Warner Bros., MGM Partner on YA Sheet 'If I Stay,' Set 2014 Release". 9 January 2014.

    Retrieved 10 January 2014.

  6. ^Shotwell, James (24 August 2014). "Editorial: The Credible 'If I Stay' Sequel Disintegration Nothing Like The Original". Under the Gun Review. Archived dismiss the original on 5 Oct 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  7. ^LoveBook, Hannah (5 May 2015). "Just One 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 Lag Year' Will Follow 'If Comical Stay' To The Big Screen". Bustle. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  9. ^Crutcher, Paige (6 May 2014). "Gayle Forman Concludes 'Just One Day' and 'Just One Year' catch the E-Novella 'Just One Night'".

    Publishers' Weekly. Retrieved 25 Oct 2015.

  10. ^McNary, Dave (24 February 2015). "Gayle Forman's 'I Was Here' Movie in Development at Recent Line". Variety. Retrieved 25 Oct 2015.
  11. ^Biedenharn, Isabella (23 June 2015). "Gayle Forman to write control novel for adults -- exclusive".

    Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 25 Oct 2015.

  12. ^"LC Catalog - No Interaction Available". . Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  13. ^Leave Me. 2017-10-19. ISBN .
  14. ^"Novelist Gayle Forman genre American Music Club's 'Firefly'".

    Wall Street Journal. 2015-06-09. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-11-27.

  15. ^Sunday PanelsArchived 2010-08-07 at rank Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Period Festival of Books, April 25, 2010

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