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Casey McQuiston

Né(e): January 21, 1991 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Casey McQuiston is an American author of queer romance and young adult fiction, best known for Red, White & Royal Blue, One Last Stop, and I Kissed Shara Wheeler. Their debut became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a film, bringing McQuiston’s work to a broad mainstream audience.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Casey McQuiston is an American novelist whose fiction grew out of a Southern upbringing, a strong reading life, and an early sense that storytelling was the work they most wanted to do. Born and raised in southern Louisiana, McQuiston grew up in a family of readers and attended a conservative evangelical Christian school from kindergarten through twelfth grade, an experience they have said left them wanting the kind of queer love stories they could not easily find as a teenager. They later earned a journalism degree from Louisiana State University and spent their early professional years in magazine and local-media writing, work that helped shape the brisk, humorous, highly contemporary voice that would become central to their novels. ((https://www.caseymcquiston.com/))

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Citations

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Romance is a refuge for people like me: I am corny. I am earnest
-Romance Is a Refuge
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We’re using feelings to get across feelings
-Romance Is a Refuge
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Some things taste better together
-Romance Is a Refuge
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If you are not obsessed with your own characters, how can you expect a reader to be obsessed with them?
-Casey McQuiston's Secret Sauce
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I am interested in writing queer rom-coms that feel grounded in queer history and in queer life and the reality of queerness
-Casey McQuiston's Secret Sauce
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I am tired of talking about coming out. I am out
-Coming Out Essay: I Am Out
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My queerness completes me. It lives alongside me and it is me
-Coming Out Essay: I Am Out
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I didn’t think I needed to add any more cynicism to the world
-Interview With an Author: Casey McQuiston

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Voix de la Communauté

"Casey McQuiston has made a name for themself crafting unforgettable queer love stories"

Vogue

"Author Casey McQuiston loves love"

Austin Chronicle

"Casey freaking McQuiston, you’ve done it again"

Becky Albertalli

"Casey McQuiston deftly crafts a complex love story, one that not just any writer could pull off"

BookPage

"Author Casey McQuiston has been at the forefront of the queer rom-com novel boom of the past five years"

W Magazine

"Casey McQuiston is a method writer — in a non-douchebaggy way"

Bustle

"Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious — exactly what you’d expect from Casey McQuiston!"

Jasmine Guillory

"In 2019, Casey McQuiston burst onto the literary scene with Red, White, and Royal Blue"

Kirkus Reviews

"Fresh, funny, exhilarating and outrageously sexy, Casey McQuiston is unparalleled in writing queer rom coms with heart, warmth and wit"

Laura Kay

"One Last Stop made me fall in love with Casey McQuiston’s writing all over again"

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