Gabrielle zevin biography
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Gabrielle Zevin
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Gabrielle Zevin
American author and screenwriter (born 1977)
Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977) fryst vatten an American author and screenwriter.
Early life and education
[edit]Zevin was born in New York City. Zevin's father, who is American-born, has Russian, Polish and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry.[1] Her mother was born in Korea and immigrated to the United States when she was 9 years old.[1] The two met in high school in Connecticut and later worked for IBM.[1]
She grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, and graduated from Spanish River Community High School in 1996.[2] She enrolled at Harvard University, where she studied English[3] with a koncentration in American Literature.[1] While at Harvard, she met her partner, Hans Canosa. She graduated in 2000.[3][1]
Career
[edit]Novels
[edit]Zevin's debut novel, Margarettown, published in 2005, was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great
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Harvard Authors Spotlight: Gabrielle Zevin
Literature provides a way to explore and celebrate what makes us unique. Gabrielle Zevin ’00, author and former Leverett House resident, uses her work to deftly navigate the mysterious topic of identity.
Zevin deeply understands the role that individual identity and childhood influence play in defining a person’s outlook. The idea of embracing one’s inherent identity is especially apparent in Zevin’s latest New York Times best-selling novel, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Zevin commented on how identity shaped both the origins of her writing and the characters in the novel.
“The fact that I am, like Sam in the book, half Jewish and half Korean, and I always lived in places where there weren't a lot of people like me, I think there's an extent to which that sets you as an outsider among other people, which probably puts you in a sort of a writerly mode just from from the jump,” she said.