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Gabrielle Zevin

Biography

Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin is a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into 39 languages.

Her 10th novel, TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller, and a selection of the Fallon Book Club. TOMORROW was Amazon.com’s #1 Book of the Year, Time Magazine’s #1 Book of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book, and the winner of both the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction and the Book of the Month Club’s Book of the Year. Following a 25-bidder auctionthe feature film rights to TOMORROW were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios. Zevin is currently writing the screenplay.

THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY also spent many months on the New York Times bestseller List. A.J. FIKRY was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction, the Japan Booksellers’ Prize, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, among other honors. A.J. FIKRY is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. She has also written children’s books, including the award-winning ELSEWHERE.

She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. She has occasionally written  criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR’s All Things Considered, and she began her writing career, at age 14, as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.

Books by Gabrielle Zevin

by Gabrielle Zevin - Fiction

Sam and Sadie --- two college friends, often in love but never lovers --- become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

by Gabrielle Zevin - Fiction

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d know about her mom’s new family. She’d know about her dad’s fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads.

by Gabrielle Zevin - Fiction

Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is looking forward to earning her driver's license, graduating high school and attending college. But on the way to help her best friend shop for a prom dress, Liz is killed by a hit-and-run driver. End of story? Not even close. In Gabrielle Zevin's witty and wise new novel, Liz awakens on a cruise ship bound for the afterlife.