Gabrielle Zevin is an American author and screenwriter. She is a Harvard graduate, born in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 where she still lives.

Her first novel Elsewhere was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders

Borders Group

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 Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble

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 Book Club. The book has been translated into seventeen languages.

She was nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Conversations with Other Women

Conversations with Other Women

Conversations with Other Women is 2005 comedy drama film directed by Hans Canosa, written by Gabrielle Zevin, starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter....

starring Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane...

 and Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American film and stage actor. Born in California, he moved to England at the age of 13, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Sydney, Australia, for his high school senior year...

 and directed by Hans Canosa

Hans Canosa

Hans Canosa is an American film director, writer, film editor and producer. He is best known for his independent film Conversations with Other Women , starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter.-Background:...

.

Young Adults

• All These Things I've Done (2011)
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (novel) (2007)
• Elsewhere (2005)

Note

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac has been made into a Japanese live-action movie

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2010 drama film starring Japanese actress Maki Horikita, Japanese actors Kenichi Matsuyama and Yuya Tegoshi, and American actor Anton Yelchin based on a book written by Gabrielle Zevin.-Cast:...

External links

• Gabrielle Zevin's Official Website
• Gabrielle Zevin at The Internet Movie Database
• Farrar Straus Giroux's Elsewhere website
• Teenreads Author Profile
• Bloomsbury's Elsewhere website
• Barnes & Noble's Meet the Writers profile
• The New York Times Book Review of Elsewhere

Interviews

• "Conversations with an Emerging Screenwriter." Nantucket Independent, 6/14/06
• "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Teenreads.com Interview about Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, 09/07
• "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Teenreads.com Interview about Elsewhere, 09/30/05
• "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Bildungsroman, 1/28/08
• "Interview: Gabrielle Zevin" Estella's Revenge, 9/1/07
• "Seven Impossible Interviews Before Breakfast #55 (Winter Blog Blast Tour Edition): Gabrielle Zevin" Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, 11/9/07
• "Gabrielle Zevin Stops by for a Chat!" The Longstockings, 10/2/07