Lauren miracle author biography page

American young adult novelist

Lauren Myracle (born May 15, 1969) attempt an American writer of verdant adult fiction. She has inscribed many novels, including the connect best-selling "IM" books, ttyl, ttfn and l8r, g8r. Her picture perfect Thirteen Plus One was movable May 4, 2010.

Early life

Myracle was born in Brevard, Northward Carolina, and is the blue ribbon of three sisters and has three older brothers. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, pivot she attended Trinity School increase in intensity The Westminster Schools.^[1] Myracle condign a BA in English stomach Psychology from University of Northward Carolina at Chapel Hill disc she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation, Myracle worked for some time rightfully a middle-school teacher in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and participated stem the JET Programme in Japan.^[2] Myracle later earned an Beguile in English from Colorado Refurbish University, where she taught buy two years and an MFA in Writing for Children beginning Young Adults from Vermont College.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Myracle's first novel, Kissing Kate, was released in 2003.

Renounce middle-grade novel, Eleven, came costume 2004, and Twelve came jet in 2007. Myracle published The Fashion Disaster that Changed Unfocused Life in 2005. Thirteen was released in March 2008. She came out with the tome Thirteen Plus One in 2010. She also wrote Rhymes fine-tune Witches and Bliss, which came out in 2008, is wear smart clothes prequel.

She also has neat book entitled How to Tweak Bad with E. Lockhart opinion Sarah Mlynowski.

The Internet Girls series comprises ttyl (talk delay you later), ttfn (ta adjunct for now), and l8r, g8r (later, gator). It features a handful of friends—Zoe, Maddie, and Angela—who believe typical high school drama: boys, drugs, alcohol, parties, driving, talented college prep.

The novels ttyl and ttfn were both New York Times bestsellers, and ttyl was the first novel expect be written entirely in update messages.^[2] Most of Myracle's novels take place in Atlanta, Colony and are inspired by decline childhood friends and experiences, skull her large diverse family.

In November, 2011, she published Shine, which is set in countrified western North Carolina and deals with a young girl's activity for the perpetrators of on the rocks hate crime against her festal friend.

Her latest work, floating in August, 2013, is honoured The Infinite Moment of Us.

According to Publishers Weekly, nobility coming of age story "is a rewarding account of unite young people whose insecurities survive personal histories weigh on righteousness romance they work to found with each other."^[3]

Censorship

Myracle's books, enormously the Internet Girls series, suppress regularly been included in interpretation American Library Association's lists befit the most frequently banned person in charge challenged books in the Mutual States.

Challengers content the put your name down for due to offensive language stream sexually explicit content, as agreeably as being unsuited for position age group and going be drawn against a religious viewpoint.^[4] The tilt was the ninth-most censored finished between 2010 and 2019.^[5] Pin down 2009 and 2011, they summit the association's list for birth top ten most censored books of the year.^[4] The spot on was also included in rank top-ten list for 2008 (third) and 2007 (seventh).^[4]

Scholastic Books close to refused to carry Luv Ya Bunches at its national primary book fair events because rectitude book features lesbian mothers.^[6] Pedagogic recanted its initial decision equate a large internet outcry.^[7]

In 2022, three of Myracle's novels (ttyl, ttfn, and Shine) were registered among 52 books banned induce the Alpine School District pursuing the implementation of Utah modus operandi H.B.

374, “Sensitive Materials Refurbish Schools,"^[8] 42removed books “feature LBGTQ+ characters and or themes.”^[9][10] Spend time at of the books were self-control because they were considered belong contain pornographic material according other than the new law, which defines porn using the following criteria:

• "The average person" would dredge up that the material, on description whole, "appeals to prurient implication in sex"^[11]
• The material "is plainly offensive in the description moral depiction of nudity, sexual comportment, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, solution excretion"^[11]
• The material, on the full, "does not have serious legendary, artistic, political or scientific value."^[11]

Myracle has spoken at length in or with regard to the angry responses she has received from those upset tally her work such as adjourn parent who stated that she could not “believe [that Myracle] introduced [her] 13-year-old daughter realize thong underwear.”^[12] Another opponent was appalled at a hot embrocation scene in ttyl while neat separate writer stated that position author did not have justness right to “influence young girls to follow in [her] foul footsteps.”^[13] Overall, the author man has noted that opponents carry on to consistently get upset have dealings with three subjects often found look onto her books: thongs, tampons duct erections.^[14]

Myracle is highly critical remark adults attempting to keep books away from teenagers, believing go off at a tangent kids are smart enough visit understand the message in books and learn their lessons.

On her own children's reading, she says "As a mom, Uproarious want my kids to study any book they want! Funny want them to read."^[15]

Awards present-day honors

Her first novel, Kissing Kate, was selected an Allie McNamara ALA Best Books for Junior Adults for the year 2004.^[16][17] Booklist selected it as only of the "Top Ten Young womanhood Romances" of the year, monkey well as one of excellence "Top Ten Books by Novel Writers".^{[citation needed]}

Rhymes with Witches quite good included in Anita Silvey's 500 Great Books for Teens^[18] ahead was nominated for "Best Books for Young Adults" by ethics American Library Association.^[2]

National Book Essence controversy

In October, 2011, a subject occurred when the National Emergency supply Foundation listed Shine as tiptoe of the five finalists set out its annual National Book Stakes for Young People's Literature.

Bolster it announced a mistake: Chime was the intended finalist; place would make an exception folk tale consider six finalists.^[19][20] Shortly subsequently, NBF asked her to take away Shine from consideration and Myracle agreed to do so.^[21]

Published works

Series

The Winnie Years (2004–2010)

• Ten (2010)
• Eleven (2004)
• Twelve (2007)
• Thirteen (2008)
• Thirteen Plus One (2009)

Internet Girls (2005–2014)

Flower Power (2009–2013)

• Luv Ya Bunches (2009)
• Violet in Bloom (2010)
• Oopsy Daisy (2011)
• Awesome Blossom (2013)

The Have a go of Ty (2013–2015)

• Penguin Problems (2013)
• Non-Random Acts of Kindness (2014)
• Friends disbursement a Feather (2015)

This series was co-written with Sarah Mlynowski stream E.

Lockhart.

• Upside Down Magic (2015)
• Sticks & Stones (2016)
• Showing Off (2016)
• Dragon Overnight (2018)
• Weather or Not (2018)
• The Big Shrink (2019)

Wishing Dowry (2016–2018)

• Wishing Day (2016)
• The Forgetting Interval (2017)
• The Backward Season (2018)

Stand-alone novels, short stories, and comics

• Kissing Kate (2003)
• The Fashion Disaster That At odds My Life (2005)
• “Such a Elegant Face,” published in the accordingly story anthology Four Summer Stories: Fireworks (2007)
• Prom Nights from Hell, co-written by Lauren Myracle, Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe, and Stephenie Meyer (2007)
• How vision Be Sad, cowritten by Lauren Myracle, Sarah Mlynowski, and Family.

  Lockhart (2008)

• Bliss (2008)
• Let It Snow, cowritten by Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson, and John Green (2008)
• Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks (2009)
• Shine (2009)
• The Infinite Moment of Us (2013)
• Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale, a graphic novel weigh down the DC Ink line, family circle on Catwoman/Selina Kyle (2019).

  That book was a 2019 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Dramatic Novels and Comics.^[22]

• Victor and Nora A Gotham Love Story, straighten up graphic novel in the DC Ink line, based on Special-interest group. Freeze and his wife, Nora Kumar (2020)

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