Lizzie Borden in Love by Julianna Baggott

Her Bridget Asher novels, published by Bantam Dell at Random House, include All of Us and Everything, listed in “Best New Books” in People magazine (2015), The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, The Pretend Wife, and My Husband’s Sweethearts.Īlthough the bulk of her work is for adults, she has published award-winning novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E.

She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews) it has been optioned by Anonymous Content, and currently by BCDF, with a screenplay penned by playwright Keith Bunin. It was quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller, The Miss America Family, and then The Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, the national bestseller Girl Talk. Her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized.īaggott began publishing short stories when she was twenty-two and sold her first novel while still in her twenties. Baggott’s work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Modern Love column, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, Glamour, Real Simple, Best Creative Nonfiction, Best American Poetry, and has been read on NPR’s Here and Now, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered. There are over one hundred foreign editions of Julianna’s novels published or forthcoming overseas.

For more on her film and TV work, click here. Her work has been optioned by Fox2000, Nickelodeon/Paramount, and Anonymous Content and she currently has work in development at Netflix with Shawn Levy attached to direct, Paramount with Jessica Biel attached, Disney+, Lionsgate, and Warner Brothers, to name a few. Her novel Pure, the first of a trilogy, was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2012) and won an ALA Alex Award. Her recent novel, Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2015). Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published more than twenty books under her own name as well as pen names Bridget Asher and N.E.

Lizzie Borden in Love by Julianna Baggott