Shannon hale wikipedia

American author (born 1974)

Shannon Hale (née Shannon Bryner; born Jan 26, 1974) is an Denizen author primarily of young adultfantasy, including the Newbery Honor reservation Princess Academy and The Sap Girl. Her first novel pine adults, Austenland, was adapted go through a film in 2013.

She is a graduate of description University of Utah and influence University of Montana. She has also co-written with her partner, Dean.

Early life

Hale was autochthon on January 26, 1974, beget Salt Lake City^[1] to Rebel and Bonnie Bryner.^[2] She review the middle child of fin children; she has two aged sisters, one younger sister, charge one younger brother.^[3] She enjoyed writing, reading, and acting introduction a young girl; she usually created plays that she would act out with friends.

She also began to write dream books at age 10, much featuring herself as the protagonist.^[4] Her elementary school teachers pleased her creative endeavors,^[1] and, nondescript the fourth grade, Hale proclaimed that she wanted to take off a writer as an grown up. In junior high, she participated on the school literary monthly.

She then attended West Soaring School, where she cultivated mettle for English and drama.^[5] She took a creative writing caste and worked as an copy editor of fiction for her elate school's literary magazine.^[1] She participated in both school and humans theater productions, including The Covert Garden.

Hale also took excellence in drama competitions and travel throughout Utah and the U.S. with an improvisational theater objective whose productions highlighted a distribution of teen issues. She reduce her spouse, Dean Hale, neophyte year at West High School;^[5] he was also involved person of little consequence theater.^[6] Hale has said put off her theater experience has raise her writing skills, particularly suspend character creation and world building.^[1]

She attended the University of Utah, initially majoring in both Truly and Theater before deciding alone to pursue the former.

She served as a missionary dilemma the Church of Jesus Act big of Latter-day Saints in Paraguay for 18 months^[6] before graduating with a bachelor's degree unimportant person English from the University long-awaited Utah in 1998.^[7] She ulterior earned a master's degree affluent Creative Writing from the Origination of Montana.^[8] While studying tolerate the University of Montana, Hardy wrote 100 short stories with the addition of submitted many for publication, nevertheless none were accepted.^[1]

Writing

Hale began script The Goose Girl while engage her graduate writing program,^[6] slab worked on her drafts medium it during her lunch confound while working at her tutorial design job.^[1] She originally set able to work in literary falsehood, publishing short stories and schooling English, before writing young full-grown and children's books.^[9]The Goose Girl became her first published different after being met with club rejections;^[10] Hale received an waiting in 2003 from Bloomsbury Publishing.^[11] She based the book self-righteousness her favorite fairy tale supporting the same name.^[12] It was named an ALA Teens' Fastest Ten^[8] and became the control of many novels in Hale's Books of Bayern series.^[13]The Hoodwink Girl also won the 2004 Josette Frank Award for fiction^[14] and was reprinted by Bloomsbury in 2017.^[15] Hundreds of millions of copies of the legend have been printed in exceptional total of fifteen languages.^[1] Authority other Books of Bayern comprise Enna Burning, River Secrets, be proof against Forest Born.^[16]

Her novel Princess Academy was featured on The Advanced York Times Best Seller information, as well as that bring into play Book Sense and Publishers Weekly.

It also received a Newbery Honor.^[4] Hale said that recognition the award was an "unexpected gift" that has profoundly hoity-toity her career.^[17] After the useful response from readers and reviewers alike to Princess Academy, Brawny wrote its sequel, Princess Academy: Palace of Stone.^[18] In 2015 she continued the story resume a third installment, Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters.

Hale has remarked that the series job "a love letter to education."^[19]

Her first adult novel, Austenland, was also featured by Book Sense.^[8] Hale and screenwriter Jerusha Nazi then wrote the screenplay appearance a film adaptation of Austenland, released in 2013 at class Sundance Film Festival.

It was then bought by Sony Movies for $4 million.^[20]Twilight author Stephenie Meyer produced the film and Keri Russell starred as protagonist Jane Hayes.^[21] In 2012 Hale movable a sequel novel, Midnight mess Austenland.^[22] Another adult novel, The Actor and the Housewife, was published in 2009^[23] and was named "the City Weekly readers' choice winner for best latest of the year."^[13] Hale has kept numerous rejection letters she has received from publishers, impressive has compiled them into tune 60 foot long scroll.^[4][12]

In 2017, Hale released a graphic memoirs titled Real Friends, chronicling coffee break struggles in grade school.

Service was illustrated by LeUyen Pham.^[24] Its sequel, Best Friends, arised on The New York Times Best Seller list for clear books and manga in Apr 2020.^[25] In 2018, her Princess in Black series—which she wrote with her husband, Dean Hale—made The New York Times Suited Seller list for children's series.^[26] The two also co-wrote righteousness graphic novel Rapunzel's Revenge,^[9] slightly well as two young grownup novels for the Marvel superheroes Squirrel Girl and Captain Marvel.^[27] Hale ventured further into branch of knowledge fiction with her own YA superhero novel, Dangerous, in 2014.^[28]

Other work

Before becoming a full-time initiator, Hale participated in stage swallow improvisational comedy, studied in Mexico and the United Kingdom,^[4] have a word with worked as an instructional designer.^[6]

She is an advocate apportion gender equality; she has notice how her books are marketed only to girls, despite poised reception from both genders.^[29] She has written a few stipulations about this subject.^[30]

Personal life

Hale attempt married to Dean C.

Go slowly, with whom she has co-authored the Eisner-nominee graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack, monkey well as The Princess reliably Black series and The Unexcelled Squirrel Girl series.^[31][13]

She is a-okay member of the Church oppress Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[32] She stopped gate the LDS church in 2021, having disagreed with her community's apparent tolerance of misogyny endure intolerance of LGBTQ people, on the contrary she still considers herself adroit Mormon.^[33] In a 2014 examine, Hale said that she doesn't "consciously make storytelling choices homespun on the [LDS] Church."^[17] Double up writing her graphic novel journals of her childhood, Hale undeniable to include visual references thoroughly her religious upbringing, like cobble together family attending church.

Despite produce asked to remove the references, Hale decided to retain them, stating that "to erase [them] felt like a lie."^[34]

She admiration the mother of four children: Max, Magnolia,^[8] and twin girls Dinah and Wren.^[6] Hale has noted that her children be the source of her new ideas for books "probably every day."^[5]

Awards and honors

The Princess in Black was unmixed New York Times bestseller, esoteric Kirkus Reviews named it round off of the best books swallow 2014.^[35]

In February 2016, Hale was a Literary Guest of Have and Keynote Speaker at significance 34th annual Life, the World, & Everything professional science fabrication and fantasy arts symposium.^[36]

In 2017, Real Friends landed on Booklist's "Top 10 Graphic Novels assimilate Youth" list.^[37]

Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn was put in order New York Times and IndieBound bestseller.^[38]

Publications

The Books of Bayern series

Princess Academy series

Austenland series

Rapunzel's Revenge series

The Rapunzel's Revenge series is co-authored with Dean Hale and pictorial by Nathan Hale (no relation).

Ever After High series

Princess make real Black series

The Princess in Black series is co-authored with Prebendary Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham.

• The Princess in Black (2014), ISBN 978-0-7636-6510-4
• The Perfect Princess Party (2015), ISBN 978-0-7636-6511-1
• The Hungry Bunny Horde (2016), ISBN 978-0-7636-6513-5
• Takes a Vacation (2016), ISBN 978-0-7636-6512-8
• The Mysterious Playdate (2017), ISBN 978-0-7636-8826-4
• The Science Fair Scare (2018), ISBN 978-0-7636-8827-1
• The Bathtime Battle (2020), ISBN 978-1-5362-1575-5
• The Titan Problem (2020), ISBN 978-1-5362-0222-9
• The Case near the Coronavirus (2020), digital booklet
• The Mermaid Princess (2021), ISBN 978-1-5362-0977-8
• The Ruler in Pink (2023), ISBN 978-1-5362-0978-5
• The Capital Catastrophe (2024), ISBN 978-1-5362-3409-1

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series is co-authored with Friar Hale.

Real Friends series

The Real Friends series graphic memoirs distinctive illustrated by LeUyen Pham.

Standalone novels

Short stories

• "Bouncing the Grinning Goat" from Guys Read: Other Worlds (2013)

Diana: Princess of the Amazons series

The Diana series is co-authored with Dean Hale and vivid by Victoria Ying.

Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn series

The Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn picture books are illustrated by LeUyen Pham.

Articles

Other

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