Pen name E. Lockhart Name E. Lockhart Occupation Writer Role Writer | Nationality American Parents Len Jenkin Period 1996–present Movies Lemonade in Winter | |
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Genre Children's picture books, young-adult fiction Notable works The Boyfriend List (Ruby Oliver series)The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Awards Goodreads Choice Awards Best Young Adult Fiction Books We Were Liars, The Disreputable History of, The boyfriend list, Toys Go Out: Being the Adve, Skunkdog Similar People Paul O Zelinsky, Len Jenkin, Pierre Pratt Profiles | ||
E lockhart on we were liars
Emily Jenkins (born 1967), who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction. She is known best for the Ruby Oliver quartet (which begins with The Boyfriend List), The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and We Were Liars.
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- E lockhart on we were liars
- E lockhart interview
- Personal life
- Writer
- Childrens books by Emily Jenkins
- Adult books by Emily Jenkins
- Young adult books by E Lockhart
- References
E lockhart interview
Personal life
Jenkins grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Seattle, Washington. In high school she attended summer drama schools at Northwestern University and the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. She attended Lakeside School, a private high school in North Seattle. She went to Vassar College—where she studied illustrated books and interviewed Barry Moser for her senior thesis—and graduate school at Columbia University, where she earned a doctorate in English literature. She currently lives in the New York City area.
Writer
Jenkins writes as E. Lockhart for the young adult market; "Lockhart" was the family name of her mother's mother. Her first book by Lockhart was a novel, The Boyfriend List, published by Random House Dell Delacorte Press in 2005. There are three sequels, The Boy Book (2006), The Treasure Map of Boys (2009), and Real Live Boyfriends (2010), and the four are also known collectively as the Ruby Oliver novels after their central protagonist. Another novel for teens, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Michael L. Printz Award. We Were Liars made the shortlist of four books for the 2014 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The annual prize judged by British children's writers recognizes the year's best U.K.-published book by a writer who has not previously won it.
Under her real name Jenkins has collaborated with illustrators to produce children's picture books. They have received honors including the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award (the original Toys Go Out, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky) and two runners-up for Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Five Creatures, illus. Tomek Bogacki, and That New Animal, illus. Pierre Pratt).