Gabrielle Zevin’s writing career began at 14 years old when an angry letter to her local newspaper about a Guns ‘n’ Roses concert resulted in a job as a music critic. Over several novels for adults and young people, she has written about female soldiers in Iraq, mafia princesses in a retro-future New York City, teenage girls in the afterlife, talking dogs, amnesiacs, and the difficulties of loving one person over many years. Her first novel, Elsewhere, has been translated into over 20 languages. She is also the screenwriter of the cult hit Conversations with Other Women.
Her eighth novel, the New York Times Best Seller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, was published in April 2014 by Algonquin in the US, by Penguin in Canada, and by Little, Brown in the UK (as The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry). It will also be published in 20 other languages.