Reasonably Official Bio

Gabrielle Zevin was born in New York in 1977. She is an only child which is good practice for writing - both require an aptitude for being alone. Since graduating from Harvard University in 2000, she has worked as a screenwriter. Several of her screenplays have been optioned and one, Conversations with Other Women, was recently produced. For her work on the film, Gabrielle was nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award. She has written three novels: Margarettown, Elsewhere, and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. 

 Margarettown was a selection of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program, a BookSense Notable, and has been optioned for movies by This is That (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Among other honors, Elsewhere was nominated for a 2006 Quill Award and won the Borders Original Voices Award. Of the book, The New York Times wrote, “Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own...."Elsewhere," by Gabrielle Zevin, is such a book.” Elsewhere has been translated into seventeen languages.

Gabrielle usually lives in New York City. She has one dog, a peculiarly expressive, eight year old pug named Mrs. DeWinter.