Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970, in Evanston, Illinois) is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Read full biography of Sarah Dessen →
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and... →
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my... →
I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.
If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.
I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to... →
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or... →
I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.
Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970, in Evanston, Illinois) is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.