Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973 in Omaha , Nebraska , USA ) is an American author of children's books and books for adolescents .
Life
Rowell was a columnist and reporter for the Omaha World-Herald newspaper from 1995 to 2012 . In the years since 2011 she has published five novels for young adults, two of which have so far been published in German, also as audio books. A sixth novel is due to appear in the USA in autumn 2015.
The book Eleanor & Park was praised by the trade press in 2013. For example, it was among the Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults of the ALA Best Books for Young Adults of the US Association of Librarians . The film studio DreamWorks SKG planned to make a film based on the book and asked Rowell to write the script. However, production was stopped in August 2016. In May 2019 it was made public that Picturestart and Plan B had acquired the film rights to the novel. Rowell wrote the draft for her next book, Fangirl, from 2013 as part of the 2011 National Novel Writing Month competition held in the USA .
Rowell lives in Nebraska with husband and two sons.
Publications
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Attachments. Orion Press, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-4091-1628-8 .
- German by Sonja Hagemann: Love at the second click. Novel. Goldmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-47420-2 .
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Eleanor & Park . St. Martin's Griffin, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-1-250012579 .
- German by Brigitte Jakobeit : Eleanor & Park. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24740-6 .
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Fangirl . 2013.
- German by Brigitte Jakobeit: Fangirl. Novel. Carl Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25700-9 .
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Landline . 2014.
- German by Frauke Lengermann: Landline. Novel. LYX, 2016, ISBN 978-3736303287 .
- My True Love Gave to Me . 2014.
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Carry on . St. Martin's Press, New York City, USA 2015, ISBN 978-1-250049551 .
- German by Brigitte Jakobeit: Rise and fall of the extraordinary Simon Snow. Novel. dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-64032-9 .
Web links
- The author's website (Engl.)
- Rainbow Rowell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Fleming Jr .: Picturestart, Plan B Team For Film Adaptation Of Rainbow Rowell bestseller 'Eleanor & Park'. In: Deadline. May 14, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Shakespeare, the old prankster. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 23, 2015, p. 12.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rowell, Rainbow |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author of books for children and young people |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Omaha , Nebraska , USA |