Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman at the 2016 Texas Book Festival

Gayle Forman (born June 5, 1970 in Los Angeles ) is an American writer.

Life

Gayle Forman studied journalism at the University of Oregon . She first worked as a journalist for “Seventeen Magazine” and later also worked for Cosmopolitan , Glamor , The Nation and Elle . In 2002 she went on a trip around the world with her husband, which became the basis for her first book "You Can't Get There from Here". Forman published her first novel “Sisters in Sanity” in 2007. Her book “ If I Stay ” was filmed in 2014 under the same title . She lives in Brooklyn , New York with her husband and daughters .

Awards

• American Library Association's “Best Books for Young Adults” 2010 for “If I Stay”
• American Library Association's “Best Books for Young Adults” 2012 for “Where She Went”

Works

• You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World , Rodale Books, Emmaus, Pennsylvania 2005, ISBN 1-59486-037-8 .
• Sisters in Sanity , HarperTeen, Emmaus, Pennsylvania 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-088747-6 .
  • German: Together like sisters , Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2019, ISBN 978-3-8414-2239-2 .
• If I Stay , Dutton Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-525-42103-0 .
  • German: If I stay , Blanvalet Verlag , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7645-0351-2 .
• Where She Went , Dutton Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-525-42294-5 .
  • German: Lovesong , Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7645-0402-1 .
  • German: Just this one night (new publication), Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-38405-1 .
• Just One Day , Dutton Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-525-42591-5 .
  • German: Just one day , Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2018, ISBN 978-3-596-19778-1 .
• Just One Year , Dutton Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-525-42592-2 .
  • dt .: And a whole year , Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2018, ISBN 978-3-596-19779-8 .
• Just One Night , (eBook) Viking Children's Books, 2014, ISBN 978-0-698-18489-3 .
• I Was Here , Viking Books, 2015, ISBN 978-0-451-47147-5
  • German: Something from you , Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2018, ISBN 978-3-8414-2238-5 .
• Leave Me , Simon + Schuster, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4711-5679-3 .
  • dt .: Sometimes you just have to live , Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2018, ISBN 978-3-596-03660-8 .
• Pour Your Heart Out , Penguin Books, 2018, ISBN 978-0-425-29046-0 .
• I Have Lost My Way , Viking Books, 2018, ISBN 978-0-451-48084-2 .

Film adaptations

If I Stay (Original: If I Stay) 2014

Web links

Commons : Gayle Forman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gayle Forman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gayle Forman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gayle Forman's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gayle Forman at lovelybooks.de, accessed on June 6, 2020
2. ↑ Gayle Forman at prhspeakers.com , accessed June 6, 2020
3. ↑ ala.org/awardsgrants 2010, accessed June 6, 2020
4. ↑ ala.org/awardsgrants 2012, accessed June 6, 2020