RAINBOW ROWELL - AUTHOR OF THE WEEK

AUTHOR OF THE WEEK

Rainbow Rowell is an American Author of young adult fiction. Rowell was a columnist and ad copywriter at the Omaha World-Herald from 1995 to 2012.

RAINBOW ROWELL

After leaving her position as a columnist, Rowell began working for an ad agency and writing what would become her first published novel.

Attachments, as a pastime. Rowell had a baby during this period and stopped working on the manuscript for two years. The novel, a contemporary romantic comedy about a company's IT guy who falls in love with a woman whose email he has been monitoring, was published in 2011.

 Kirkus Reviews listed it as one of the outstanding debuts that year.

In 2012, Rowell completed the first draft of her young adult novel Fangirl for National Novel Writing Month.

In 2013, Rowell published Fangirl and Eleanor & Park, another young adult novel. Both were named by The New York Times as among the best young adult fiction of the year.Eleanor & Park was also chosen by Amazon as one of the 10 best books of 2013, and as Goodreads' best young adult fiction of the year. DreamWorks and Carla Hacken are planning a movie based on the novel, for which Rowell has been asked to write the screenplay.Her YA novels Eleanor and Park, Fangirl recieved a great deal of recognistion.

ELEANOR AND PARK

“Bono met his wife in high school,” Park says.
“So did Jerry Lee Lewis,” Eleanor answers.
“I’m not kidding,” he says.
“You should be,” she says, “we’re 16.”
“What about Romeo and Juliet?”
“Shallow, confused, then dead.”
“I love you,” Park says.  “Wherefore art thou,” Eleanor answers.

“I’m not kidding,” he says.
“You should be.”

Set over one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. 

FANGIRL

Cath is a Simon Snow fan.

Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath it's something more. Fandom is life. It's what got her and her sister, Wren, through losing their mom. It's what kept them close.

And now that she's starting college, introverted Cath isn't sure what's supposed to get her through. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

OTHER WORKS:

Carry On (2015)

Attachments (2011)

Landline (2014)

Check Out Her Website:http://www.rainbowrowell.com/