Jeanne DuPrau
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Jeanne DuPrau | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 9, 1944 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable works | The Books of Ember |
| Website | |
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Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of science fiction novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.[1]
Works
[edit | edit source]The Books of Ember
[edit | edit source]- The City of Ember (2003)[2]
- The People of Sparks (2004)[3]
- The Prophet of Yonwood (2006)
- The Diamond of Darkhold (2008)
Other fiction
[edit | edit source]- Car Trouble (2005)[4]
- Voyagers: Escape the Vortex (2016)
- Project F (2023)
Nonfiction
[edit | edit source]- The Earth House
- Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage
- Cells
- Cloning
- Daily Life in the American Colonies
Short stories
[edit | edit source]- "Pearl's Fateful Wish" included in the young adult short story collection What You Wish For, published September 2011.
Film adaptations
[edit | edit source]A film adaptation of The City of Ember, called City of Ember, was released in October 2008. It was filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland and stars Bill Murray as the Mayor of Ember, Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins and Martin Landau.[5]
References
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External links
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- Jeanne DuPrau at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Jeanne DuPrau at Library of Congress, with 17 library catalog records
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Categories:
- 20th-century American novelists
- Living people
- 1944 births
- People from Menlo Park, California
- 21st-century American novelists
- American children's writers
- 20th-century American women novelists
- 21st-century American women novelists
- Writers of young adult science fiction
- Novelists from California
- American women science fiction and fantasy writers