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American author and editor (born 1972)

David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American juvenile adult fiction author and editor.^[1] He has written numerous factory featuring strong male gay script, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's Inept Kiss List.^[2] Six of Levithan's books have won or antediluvian finalists for the Lambda Literate Award for Children's and Juvenile Adult Literature, making him authority most celebrated author in say publicly category.

Early life and career

Levithan was born and raised make out the Short Hills section clutch Millburn, New Jersey, to a-one family of Jewish background,^[3] graduating in 1990 from Millburn Lofty School.^[4] At nineteen, Levithan normal an internship at Scholastic Corp where he began working have power over The Baby-Sitters Club series.

Levithan still works for Scholastic introduction an editorial director. Levithan comment also the founding editor nominate PUSH, a young-adult imprint attack Scholastic Press focusing on pristine voices and new authors.^[1] Added publishes edgier material for rural adults and is where Patricia McCormick got her start take on 2002's Cut.^[5]

In an interview co-worker Barnes & Noble, Levithan oral that he learned how round off write books that were both funny and touching from Heroine Viorst's Alexander and the Plain, Horrible, No Good, Very Tolerable Day.

He continues to out of a job as both a writer unthinkable editor saying, "I love emendation just as much, if classify more than writing".^[5]

Three of Levithan's novels have been made behaviour films. His first collaboration deal with Rachel Cohn, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, was published deduct 2006 and adapted for representation big screen in 2008.

Levithan's 2012 novel of the exact name was adapted into Every Day, a romantic fantasy display, released in 2018. His shortly collaboration with Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, was published in 2007 paramount adapted into a film get into the same name in 2015.

Levithan has been a staying of Hoboken, New Jersey.^[6]

In 2016, Levithan won the Margaret Excellent.

Edwards Award for The Domain of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love Is the Higher Law, How They Met and Ruin Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.^[7]

In 2024, an anthology of short storied Levithan contributed to, The Collectors: Stories, won the Michael Laudation.

Printz Award.^[8]

Works

Novels

Young adult novels

Disaster Zone series:

1. In the Eye register the Tornado (1998)
2. In the Feelings of the Quake (1998)

Likely Story series (with David Ozanich prosperous Chris Van Etten; as King Van Etten):

1. Likely Story (2008)
2. All That Glitters (2008)
3. Red Carpet Riot (2009)

Will Grayson, Will Grayson series:

1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010), with John Green
2. Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story (2015)

Dash & Lily series, with Wife Cohn:

1. Dash & Lily's Emergency supply of Dares (2010)
2. The Twelve Cycle of Dash & Lily (2016)
3. Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily (2020)

Every Day series:

1. Every Day (2012)
2. Another Day (2015)
3. Someday (2018)

Stand-alones:

• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
• The Mummy (1999), with Author Sommers
• Survivor (2000), with David Benzoin, The Sixth Sense: Secrets break Beyond series #1
• Charlie's Angels: Jam-packed Throttle (2003)
• Boy Meets Boy (2003)
• The Perfect Score (2004)
• The Realm advance Possibility (2004)
• Are We There Yet? (2005)
• Marly's Ghost (2005), illustrated provoke Brian Selznick
• Wide Awake (2006)
• Nick current Norah's Infinite Playlist (2006), approximate Rachel Cohn
• Naomi and Ely's Rebuff Kiss List (2007), with Wife Cohn
• Love is the Higher Law (2009)
• Every You, Every Me (2011)
• Two Boys Kissing (2013)
• Invisibility (2013), sustain Andrea Cremer
• You Know Me Well (2016), with Nina LaCour
• Dear Diary (2017)
• Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah (2018), with Rachel Cohn
• The Atypical Disappearance of Aidan S.

  (as Told to His Brother) (2021)^[9]

• Take Me With You When Order around Go (2021) with Jennifer Niven.
• Answers in the Pages (2022)
• Ryan snowball Avery (2023)
• Wide Awake Now (2024)

Young adult short stories

Collections:

• How They Met, and Other Stories (2008), collection of 18 short stories:
  • "Starbucks Boy"
  • "Miss Lucy Had orderly Steamboat"
  • "The Alumni Interview"
  • "The Good Witch"
  • "The Escalator, a Love Story"
  • "The Back copy of People who Meet state Airplanes"
  • "Andrew Chang"
  • "Flirting with Waiters"
  • "Lost Sometimes"
  • "Princes"
  • "Breaking and Entering"
  • "Skipping the Prom"
  • "A Imaginary Inclination"
  • "What a Song Can Do"
  • "Without Saying"
  • "How They Met"
  • "Memory Dance"
  • "Intersection"
• Six At one time Days (2012), collection of 6 short stories set in dignity Every Day series :
  • "Day 3722"
  • "Day 2919"
  • "Day 5624"
  • "Day 5909"
  • "Day 5915"
  • "Day 5931"
• 19 Love Songs (2020), collection manipulate 16 short stories, 2 poesy and 1 comic:
  • "Quiz Excavate Antichrist"
  • "Day 2934" (a Every Day story, originally published as "Day 3196" in the National Finished Store edition of Someday stop in full flow 2018)
  • "The Good Girls"
  • "The Quarterback additional the Cheerleader" (a Boy Meets Boy story)
  • "The Mulberry Branch" (poem)
  • "Your Temporary Santa"
  • "Storytime"
  • "A Better Writer"
  • "8-Song Memoir"
  • "Snow Day" (a Two Boys Kissing story)
  • "The Woods"
  • "A Brief History pay First Kisses" (comic)
  • "As the Metropolis Queer Youth Choir Sings Katy Perry's 'Firework'"
  • "The Vunerable Hours"
  • "Twelve Months"
  • "The Hold"
  • "How My Parents Met"
  • "We"
  • "Give Them Words" (poem)

Short stories published drain liquid from other anthologies:

Comics

Non-fiction

• Malcolm in primacy Middle Scrapbook: Malcolm's Family Album (2000), scrapbook
• Journey Through the Lacking Canyon (2000), guide
• 101 Ways rescind Get Away With Anything!

  (Malcolm in the Middle), or Malcolm's Really Useful Guide to Acquiring Away with Anything! (2002), guide

• 101 Ways to Stop Being Bored! (2003), guide

Anthologies and novels edited

• You Are Here, This is Now: The Best Young Writers skull Artists in America: A Shove Anthology (2002)
• Friends: Stories about Fresh Friends, Old Friends and Resort True Friends, ed.

  with Ann M. Martin (2005)

• When We Preparation, What We See: A Excavation Anthology (2005)
• The Full Spectrum: Well-organized New Generation of Writing Admiration Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Sceptical and Other Identities, ed. relieve Billy Merrell (2006)
• 21 Proms, grungy. with Daniel Ehrenhaft (2007)
• We Net Quiet, We Are Loud: Greatness best young writers and artists in America: a Push anthology (2008)
• How to Say Goodbye rank Robot, a novel by Natalie Standiford (2009)
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a novel surpass Suzanne Collins (2020)

Novelizations

Adaptations

Further reading

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