Jennifer Donnelly
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Jennifer Donnelly (born August 16, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction best known for her book A Northern Light. In the United Kingdom, A Gathering Light was released as A Gathering Light.
It also received the 2003 Carnegie Medal, recognizing the year's best children's book.
It was one of the top ten winning works for the all-time favorite's 70th anniversary a few years ago.
In 2015, it was rated as one of Time Magazine's Top Young Adult Books of All Time.
Early life
Donnelly was born in Port Chester, New York, and was a native of the United States. Her paternal grandparents immigrated from Dublin, Ireland, to New York state, where her grandmother worked at a hotel on Big Moose Lake, the setting for A Northern Light. Donnelly's own life was divided between the people of Rye and Port Leyden, New York, New York.
Donnelly earned a degree in English Literature at the University of Rochester in 1985. She also attended Birkbeck College, University of London, in England.
Career
At the age of 25, Donnelly returned to New York, moving to Brooklyn. Atheneum first published Humble Pie, a picture book by veteran illustrator Stephen Gammell, in 2002. In the same year, she also published her first book. The Tea Rose (Thomas Dunne, 2002) is the first book of a trilogy set in London late in the nineteenth century, with ties to Jack the Ripper's tale. The Winter Rose, the Finnegan family's and related characters from London to Africa and Northern California's coast, is the second book in the series. Willa and Seamie's book The Wild Rose, the third book in the series, follows the characters from London on the eve of World War I to Arabia in 1918.
A Northern Light, Grace Brown's second book, based on Chester Gillette's killing of Grace Brown in the Adirondack Mountains in 1906 - the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's epic An American Tragedy and its sequel, A Place in the Sun, 1951.
A Northern Light won the Carnegie Medal for children's and young adult books in the United Kingdom in 2004, where it was titled A Gathering Light and may have been her first work to be published in the United Kingdom. It received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young-adult literature in the United States, as well as a runner-up for the Printz Award from the American Library Association (ALA), recognizing the year's best book for young adults. Time Magazine named A Northern Light one of the finest YA books of all time in 2015.
Revolution, her second young adult book, is a story of two teenage girls, one in present-day Brooklyn and one in Paris during the French Revolution. The book was released in October, 2010 by Delacorte Press, Random House's imprint, in the first run of 250,000 copies. The book was nominated for a Carnegie Medal and appeared on several "best-of" lists, including Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Amazon.com, ALA-YalsA, and others. Emily Janice Card and Emma Bering's audiobook version of the Listening Library was a runner-up for the ALA's annual Odyssey Award. "I'm fascinated and amazed" by the performance of what she describes as "the hardest book I've written," Donnelly wrote.
Donnelly's four-book Waterfire Saga (Deep Blue, Rogue Wave, Dark Tide, and Sea Spell), which have received numerous accolades, including the Nature Generation's 2015 Green Earth Book Award, appeared in several publications from 2014 to 2016. Bea Miller's song "Open Your Eyes," which was released by Hollywood Records and performed by Bea Miller, was taken from the chant sung by the river witches in Deep Blue.
Donnelly appeared in Beauty and the Beast: An Original Story to accompany the Beauty and the Beast film in 2017. Belle and the Beast's friendship is explored in the film, as well as Belle's time in Nevermore, a magical book from which she barely escapes. The Lost in a Book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for four months, and rights have been sold in 11 countries.
Donnelly returned to historical fiction with Fatal Throne, a book about Henry VIII and his six wives that was released by Random House/Schwartz & Wade in May 2018. Donnelly was one of six other writers on this book (Candace Fleming, M.T.). Anderson, Stephanie Hemphill, Deborah Hopkinson, Linda Sue Park, and Lisa Ann Sandell all of whom wrote Henry or one of his wives. Anne of Cleves, Henry's fourth wife, was written by Donnelly.
Donnelly revealed in September 2017 that Stepsister, a Scholastic Publishing project, would be released in 2019. The story opens with Cinderella's classic tale but follows her wicked stepsister Isabelle as "personifications of destiny and chance fight for control of her destiny and destiny" for her daughter's life, hinting that there may be hope after all for a girl who has been branded ugly since her first appearances in literature. William Morris Endeavor is handling Stepsister's film rights, and a contract is likely to be in the works.