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Jenny Han

出生: September 03, 1980 – Richmond, Virginia, United States

Jenny Han is an American young adult novelist and screenwriter whose work centers on coming-of-age, romance, and family. She is best known for The Summer I Turned Pretty and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogies, both adapted for screen; Han is also a New York Times bestselling author with broad international readership.

传记与作者历程

Jenny Han built her career by treating adolescence as a serious literary subject rather than a minor one. Raised in Richmond, Virginia, she graduated from Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School, went on to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and began writing the book that became Shug after taking a children’s-writing class there. She later moved to New York for an MFA in creative writing at the New School and worked as a librarian, experiences that kept her close to young readers and to the emotional textures of growing up. ((https://www.virginia.gov/asian-pacific-american-heritage-month/featured-asian-americans/))

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名言

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I love creating characters more than anything
-Interview with Jenny Han
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It’s all just a human experience
-To All the Boys Author Jenny Han Gives Her Best Love Advice
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I think the conversation has moved very quickly
-Constance Wu and Jenny Han on the Power of Inclusive Storytelling
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Two people falling in love always feels like a revelation
-Jenny Han on her hit trilogy
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As a storyteller, I’ve always been drawn to ‘firsts’ because they leave a mark
-In Defense Of Writing About The Bittersweet Teenage Years
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I hope that it can be a kind of balm for the fans, because it’s been a really hard year
-Jenny Han Hopes You Find Comfort in the Fantasy of To All the Boys
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Her music does really match up beautifully to the themes, and she’s just an incredible storyteller in her own right
-Jenny Han Knows The Summer I Turned Pretty Will Get You in Your Feelings

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"Jenny Han has become one of the biggest names in teen movies and TV"

TIME

"Former children’s bookseller and children’s librarian turned bestselling author Jenny Han is the author of Shug and numerous young adult titles"

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