Gabrielle Zevin is a highly accomplished American author and screenwriter, best known for her New York Times and USA Today bestselling novels. She earned her English degree from Harvard University in 2000 and has since become a critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling author, with her books translated into 39 languages.
Zevin's work has received numerous accolades, including the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction and the Japan Booksellers' Prize for her novel "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry." Her novel "Young Jane Young" won the Southern Book Prize, and "Elsewhere" won the Borders Original Voices Award, the Ulmer Unke, and the Sakura Medal. Her novels have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and have sold over five million copies worldwide.
In addition to her success as a novelist, Zevin is also an accomplished screenwriter. She received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay for "Conversations with Other Women" and has occasionally written criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered. She began her writing career as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel at the young age of fourteen. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.