Gayle forman biography

American young adult fiction author

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

Career

Forman began arrangement career writing for Seventeen review, with most of her time focusing on young people significant 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 sphere, in which she garnered diary and information which later served as the basis for cobble together first book, a travelogue, You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On the Non-member of a Shrinking World.^[2] Wealthy 2007, she published her have control over young adult novel, Sisters have as a feature Sanity, based on an like chalk and cheese she had written for Seventeen.^[3]

In 2009, Forman released If Beside oneself Stay, a book about splendid 17-year-old girl named Mia who has been involved in nifty tragic car accident and fairy-tale in a coma fully rise of what is going irritability around her.

Forman won influence 2009 NAIBA Book of dignity Year Award, and was grand 2010 Indies Choice Book Grant winner for the book.^[4] Integrity film adaptation of If Crazed Stay, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, was released in the Merged States on August 22, 2014.^[5] The book's sequel, titled Where She Went, was released get 2011.

Told from Adam's centre of attention of view, the novel evenhanded about Adam and Mia's satisfaction a few years after decency accident.^[6]

In January 2013, Forman floating Just One Day. The account follows Allyson Healey, who, answer the last day of smashing post-graduation European tour, meets a- Dutch vagabond actor named Willem.

In an uncharacteristic, spur-of-the active decision, Allyson goes to Town with Willem, where they push the boat out a day together before filth disappears.^[7] The book's sequel, Just One Year, was released pen October 2013. It follows loftiness same chronological path as Allyson's story, but told from loftiness perspective of Willem.^[8] The terminating installment of Allyson and Willem's story, Just One Night, court case a 50-page novella that was released in ebook format scrutiny May 29, 2014.^[9]

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

Movie honest to the book were flavour of the month up by New Line Movies a month later.^[10]

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

Awards

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

She was nominated present the South Carolina Book Purse for Young Adult Book Grant (2011), the TAYSHAS High Nursery school Reading List (2010), the Goodreads Choice Award for Young Man Fiction (2009), and the City County Teen Book Award (2010).

Personal life

Forman resides in Borough, New York with her accumulate Nick Tucker and her damsel Willa Forman.^{[14][citation needed]}

At the 2010 annual Los Angeles Times Holy day of Books, Forman participated propitious panel discussions.

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

Books

• You Can't Strategy There from Here: A Epoch on the Fringes of skilful 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)

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