Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977, New York City) is an American author and screenwriter. She graduated from Harvard in 2000 with a degree in English & American Literature and lives in Los Angeles. Zevin's first writing job was as a teen music critic for her local newspaper. Her first novel Elsewhere was published in 2005. It was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. It also made the Carnegie long list. The book has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2007 Zevin was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for Conversations with Other Women which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart and was also directed by Hans Canosa. In 2014, her eighth novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List.