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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Two of a Kind 2 Exemplare
Kein Titel 1 Exemplar
Should We Childproof The Marriage Bed? 1 Exemplar
Profondo come il mare (Super bestseller) 1 Exemplar
Um Natal que não Esquecemos 1 Exemplar
A Very Inconvenient Scandal 1 Exemplar
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The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Mitwirkender — 392 Exemplare, 18 Rezensionen
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (2007) — Mitwirkender — 94 Exemplare, 4 Rezensionen
Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings (2007) — Mitwirkender — 72 Exemplare, 5 Rezensionen
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (2021) — Mitwirkender — 65 Exemplare, 3 Rezensionen
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- Geburtstag
- 1955-12-10
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Wohnorte
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Brewster, Massachusetts, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Ausbildung
- Rockford College (BA ∙ 1973)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (creative writing) - Berufe
- journalist
author
editor
professor (creative writing)
high school teacher (English) - Beziehungen
- Costello, Mark (mentor)
- Organisationen
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (syndicated columnist)
Ragdale Foundation
One Writer's Place - Agent
- Jeff Kleinman (Folio)
Jane Gelfman (Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents Inc.) - Kurzbiographie
- 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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