Becky albertalli biography
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Full name
Becky Albertalli
Born
November 17, (age 42)
Atlanta Georgia
Genre
Young Adult
Romance
Drama
LGBTQ+
Coming of Age
Contemporary
Years active
present
Becky Albertalli is an award-winning American author of young adult fiction. She is well known for her debut novel Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, which earned her the American Library Association's William C. Morris Award as 's best debut novel written for teens. The novel was adapted for film in as Love, Simon.
About[]
Born and raised in the Atlanta metropolitan area, with her sister Caroline, Albertalli lives there with her husband, Brian, and sons, Owen and Henry. Albertalli attended college in Connecticut, and majored in psychology, before moving to Washington, D.C. and gaining a doctorate in clinical psychology. She worked as a psychologist until —when her first son was born—and subsequently decided to try writing a novel.
Albertalli was raised in a Reform Jewish household.
Albertalli came out as bisexual in [1][2][3][4]
Bibliography[]
Simonverse/Creekwood High Series[]
Other Works[]
- What If It's Us - (co-authored with Adam Silvera)
- Yes No Maybe So - (co-authored with Aisha Saeed)
- Kate in Waiting -
- Here
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Becky Albertalli
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was born and raised in the Atlanta, GA suburbs.
has been writing stories since preschool. Generally about her pets.
is three years older than her sister and twelve years older than her brother.
is an extraordinarily picky eater.
really loves ice cream, though. And most desserts.
is Jewish, despite her Italian last name.
has attempted and spectacularly failed at almost every sport.
rocked t-shirts from the Nature Company basically every day of middle school.
actually did fail sex ed in sixth grade (the diagrams were slightly overwhelming).
wrote and directed a tragic play at age twelve with a plot that borrowed heavily from a Lurlene McDaniel novel.
read a whole lot of The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High.
in all seriousness, wanted to be Mary Anne Spier, but was a total Mallory Pike.
was briefly but powerfully obsessed with anime in high school.
has dazzled audiences with moving portrayals of Townsperson, Lady in Waiting, Chorus, and Hairy Ishmaelite.
went to college in Connecticut and totally freaked out about all of the snow.
and her college friends once created their own likenesses on the Sims, and it was all fun until Sim Becky burned the Sim house down and then peed herself.
majored in psycho