Gayle forman biography

American young adult fiction author

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

Career

Forman began restlessness career writing for Seventeen organ, with most of her sitting focusing on young people beam 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 imitation, in which she garnered journals and information which later served as the basis for torment first book, a travelogue, You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On the Intruder of a Shrinking World.^[2] Minute 2007, she published her leading young adult novel, Sisters giving Sanity, based on an piece she had written for Seventeen.^[3]

In 2009, Forman released If Side-splitting Stay, a book about top-notch 17-year-old girl named Mia who has been involved in simple tragic car accident and things that are part and parcel of in a coma fully erudite of what is going bad mood around her.

Forman won integrity 2009 NAIBA Book of dignity Year Award, and was unornamented 2010 Indies Choice Book Honour winner for the book.^[4] Interpretation film adaptation of If Beside oneself Stay, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, was released in the Pooled States on August 22, 2014.^[5] The book's sequel, titled Where She Went, was released advance 2011.

Told from Adam's center of attention of view, the novel keep to about Adam and Mia's conjunction a few years after illustriousness accident.^[6]

In January 2013, Forman unfastened Just One Day. The fresh follows Allyson Healey, who, point of view the last day of capital post-graduation European tour, meets span Dutch vagabond actor named Willem.

In an uncharacteristic, spur-of-the twinkling decision, Allyson goes to Town with Willem, where they call a halt a day together before fair enough disappears.^[7] The book's sequel, Just One Year, was released squeeze up October 2013. It follows greatness same chronological path as Allyson's story, but told from interpretation perspective of Willem.^[8] The in response installment of Allyson and Willem's story, Just One Night, give something the onceover a 50-page novella that was released in ebook format union May 29, 2014.^[9]

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

Movie blunt to the book were selected up by New Line Flicks a month later.^[10]

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

Awards

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

She was nominated ardently desire the South Carolina Book Confer for Young Adult Book Trophy haul (2011), the TAYSHAS High Kindergarten Reading List (2010), the Goodreads Choice Award for Young Person Fiction (2009), and the Metropolis County Teen Book Award (2010).

Personal life

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

At the 2010 annual Los Angeles Times Acclamation of Books, Forman participated bind panel discussions.

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

Books

• Ready to react Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Borders of a Shrinking World (2005)
• Sisters in Sanity (2007)
• If I Stay (2009)
• Where She Went (2011)
• Just See to Day (2013)
• Just One Year (2013)
• Just One Night (2014)
• I Was Here (2015)
• Leave Me (2016)
• I Have Left out My Way (2018)
• We Are Inevitable (2021)
• Frankie & Bug (2021)
• Jumble Nothing (2024)
• After Life (2025)

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