Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 10, 1957. She studied creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1976, she became a journalist and eventually achieved the position as lifestyle columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper. Her vis mere weekly column, The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship, appeared in 125 newspapers nationwide until she retired it in 2007. She is the author of children's, young adult, and adult books. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club and was named by USA Today as one of the ten most influential books of the past 25 years. It was also adapted into a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Her other adult novels include The Breakdown Lane; Twelve Times Blessed; Christmas, Present; A Theory of Relativity; The Most Wanted; Cage of Stars; and Still Summer. Her children's books include Starring Prima!: The Mouse of the Ballet Jolie; Rosalie, My Rosalie: The Tale of a Duckling; and Ready, Set , School! Her young adult books include Now You See Her; All We Know of Heaven; and The Midnight Twins series. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Jacquelyn Mitchard
Two of a Kind 2 eksemplarer
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
Should We Childproof The Marriage Bed? 1 eksemplar
Profondo come il mare (Super bestseller) 1 eksemplar
A Theory of Realativity 1 eksemplar
Um Natal que não Esquecemos 1 eksemplar
A Very Inconvenient Scandal 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Bidragyder — 389 eksemplarer
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (2007) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings (2007) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1955-12-10
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bopæl
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Brewster, Massachusetts, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Uddannelse
- Rockford College (BA ∙ 1973)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (creative writing) - Erhverv
- journalist
author
editor
professor (creative writing)
high school teacher (English) - Relationer
- Costello, Mark (mentor)
- Organisationer
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (syndicated columnist)
Ragdale Foundation
One Writer's Place - Agent
- Jeff Kleinman (Folio)
Jane Gelfman (Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents Inc.) - Kort biografi
- Jacquelyn Mitchard is an American journalist and author. She has written the best-selling novel The Deep End of the Ocean, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club, on September 17, 1996. Other books by Mitchard include The Breakdown Lane, Twelve Times Blessed, Christmas, Present, A Theory of Relativity, The Most Wanted, Cage of Stars, No Time to Wave Goodbye, Second Nature - A Love Story, and Still Summer.
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