Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen ( born June 6, 1970 in Illinois) is an American children's author who lives and teaches in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Life

She grew up in North Carolina, where her parents were professors at the University of North Carolina, the consequence later attended. She studied English and Creative Writing as a side course. She graduated with a degree in English from. Today Its teaching at the University of North Carolina Creative Writing.

After college began Meanwhile, despite the hopes of their parents on an indigenous work of their daughter, her job at the Flying Burrito restaurant. She worked at night and wrote during the day on her first novel. Three years later, That Summer ( The Summer with you ) was released in America. Since then, her eight books have won many awards.

Your penultimate novel Just Listen, which was published in Germany in April 2008, reached in America after the publication in April 2006 ranked second in the New York Times Book Review. Then appeared in the U.S. Lock and Key.

How to Deal

Two of her novels, Someone Like You and The summer with you, were the basis for How to Deal, a film from 2003 with Mandy Moore in the lead role. The actions of the two books were mixed and thereby partially modified.

• That Summer ( dt: That summer or the summer with you or Sweetheart)
• Someone Like You ( dt: Someone Like You, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78203-6 )
• Keeping the Moon ( dt: Crazy Moon, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78180-0 )
• Dreamland ( dt: I am you, or I'll see you in dreamland )
• This Lullaby ( dt: Too cool for you, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78198-5 )
• The Truth About Forever ( dt: Between now and always, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78210-4 )
• Just Listen ( dt: Just Listen, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78222-7 )
• Lock and Key ( dt: About Ruby, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78242-5 )
• Along for the Ride ( dt: Because of You, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78253-1 )
• What Happened to Goodbye ( dt: Stop saying goodbye, dtv pocket, ISBN 978-3-423-78261-6 )