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Caroline Kepnes

Nacido: November 10, 1976 – Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States

Caroline Kepnes is an American novelist and screenwriter known for psychological thrillers that probe obsession, intimacy, and violence. She wrote You and its sequels, including Hidden Bodies and You Love Me. Her debut became an international bestseller and inspired the television series You, broadening her global audience.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Caroline Kepnes grew up on Cape Cod and studied American Civilization at Brown University, where she made a point of taking a writing workshop every semester while ranging widely across subjects. After college, she moved to New York “with a dream, not a plan,” landed early editorial work at Tiger Beat, sharpened her sense of pace and pop culture at Entertainment Weekly, and then moved into television, writing for 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The decisive turn toward fiction came after her move to Los Angeles. There, she began You by thinking of it as “a really long short story,” drawing on homesickness for New York, a fascination with romantic storytelling, and a period of grief and family illness following her father’s death to create Joe Goldberg’s intimate, unsettling voice. ((https://www.carolinekepnes.com/))

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Social media makes stalking a part of normal daily life
-The BOLO Books Interview
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What do we want from people, how much do we want them to follow us?
-Literature on Screen: You
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Rewriting is my favorite part of writing
-Interview Magazine Q&A
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We all have the potential to be monsters
-We All Become Monsters Sometimes
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My guiding principle is Joe always thinks he’s doing the right thing
-Joe Always Thinks He’s Doing the Right Thing
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I created Joe Goldberg eight years ago, and it was a way for me to cope with losing my dad
-Glamour UK Interview
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The nice thing is that it’s not a decision, it just happens naturally
-Tudum Interview
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I probably rewrote those first eight pages 100 times
-Behind the Scenes with Author Caroline Kepnes

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"American journalist Caroline Kepnes’s first novel is an unsettling masterpiece of stalker fiction"

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"Debut novelist Kepnes’s seriously unsettling depiction of stalking nevertheless manages to invoke glimmers of sympathy"

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"Crazy, sexy, cool: Caroline Kepnes gets better—and Joe Goldberg gets worse—with every book"

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"Kepnes puts the reader so deep into his head that delusions approach reality"

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"Caroline Kepnes is the master of the depraved love story"

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