Adele Griffin
Adele Griffin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, she moved to New York to work in children's book publishing. Her first book, Rainy Season, was a loosely biographical account of growing up on a military base in Panama. She is also the author of the Witch Twins and Vampire Island middle grade series. Her novels Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be were both National Book Award Finalists. Her most recent book, Picture the Dead, a young adult historical novel set during the Civil War, will be published by Sourcebooks in June, 2010. Adele lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.
Interesses pessoais
Top movies:
The Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, Rushmore, The Shining, Dead Again, Double Indemnity, Annie Hall, Breathless, In America, Memento, Hurt Locker, Heathers, Welcome to the Dollhouse
Top Books:
Watership Down, When You Reach Me, The Grass Is Singing, Pure Sunshine, Going Bovine, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Possession, Al Capone Does My Shirts, How I Live Now, Punkzilla, Gingerbread, Damage, Coraline, Matilda, The House of the Scorpion, The Weetzie Bat books, The Chocolate War, I Capture the Castle, The Headless Cupid, Lemony Snickets's A Series of Unfortunate Events, From the Notebook of Melanin Sun, Inexcusable, Uglies, Please Don't Kill the Freshman, The Sign of the Twisted Candles, Harriet the Spy, Because of Winn-Dixie, Speak