Jeanne DuPrau

Last updated

Jeanne DuPrau
Born (1944-06-09) June 9, 1944 (age 79)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksThe Books of Ember
Website
www.jeanneduprau.com

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]

Contents

Works

The Books of Ember

Other fiction

Nonfiction

Short stories

Film adaptations

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]

Related Research Articles

<i>Go Ask Alice</i> 1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks

Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism. Attributed to "Anonymous", the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited actual diary of the unnamed teenage protagonist. Questions about the book's authenticity and true authorship began to arise in the late 1970s, and Beatrice Sparks is now generally viewed as the author of the found manuscript–styled fictional document. Sparks went on to write numerous other books purporting to be real diaries of troubled teenagers. Some sources have also named Linda Glovach as a co-author of the book. Nevertheless, its popularity has endured, and, as of 2014, it had remained continuously in print since its publication over four decades earlier.

<i>The City of Ember</i> 2003 novel by Jeanne Du Prau

The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2003. The story is about Ember, a post-apocalyptic underground city threatened by aging infrastructure and corruption. The young protagonists, Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow, follow clues left behind by the original builders of the City of Ember, to safety in the outside world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mandy Hager</span> New Zealand writer

Amanda Hager is a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children, young adults and adults. Many of her books have been shortlisted for or won awards, including Singing Home the Whale which won both the Young Adult fiction category and the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2015. She has been the recipient of several fellowships, residencies and prizes, including the Beatson Fellowship in 2012, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 2014, the Waikato University Writer in Residence in 2015 and the Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award in 2019.

<i>The People of Sparks</i> 2004 novel by Jeanne DuPrau

The People of Sparks is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Jeanne DuPrau, published in 2004. It is the second "Book of Ember" in the series, and a sequel to The City of Ember; other books in the series include The Prophet of Yonwood and The Diamond of Darkhold.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Todd Strasser</span> American novelist

Todd Strasser is an American writer of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. Rue.

<i>The Prophet of Yonwood</i> 2006 novel by Jeanne DuPrau

The Prophet of Yonwood is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2006. It is the third "Book of Ember" of the series, and a prequel to The City of Ember. It is set about fifty years before the Disaster and the establishment of Ember, and approximately three hundred years before the events of The City of Ember, The People of Sparks and The Diamond of Darkhold.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gil Kenan</span> British–American filmmaker (born 1976)

Gil Kenan is a British-born American filmmaker. Kenan made his feature directorial debut with the animated horror comedy film Monster House (2006) to critical and commercial success, in which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and since has also directing the adventure film City of Ember (2008), the horror remake film Poltergeist (2015), and the Christmas fantasy film A Boy Called Christmas (2021). He also co-wrote Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), the sequel to the first two films in the Ghostbusters franchise, and later then directing and co-writing its upcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jacqueline Woodson</span> American writer

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.

<i>Car Trouble</i> (novel) 2005 novel by Jeanne DuPrau

Car Trouble is a novel by Jeanne DuPrau published in 2005 about a man named Duff Pringle who travels across the country for a dream job.

<i>City of Ember</i> 2008 film by Gil Kenan

City of Ember is a 2008 American science fantasy adventure film based on the 2003 novel The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Directed by Gil Kenan in his live-action directorial debut, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Toby Jones and Tim Robbins.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adam Selzer</span> American author

Adam Selzer is an American author, originally of young adult and middle grade novels, though his work after 2011 has primarily been adult nonfiction.

<i>The Diamond of Darkhold</i> 2008 novel by Jeanne DuPrau

The Diamond of Darkhold is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Jeanne DuPrau, published in 2008. The novel is the fourth "Book of Ember" and was released on August 26, 2008. The fourth book picks up where The People of Sparks left off, during the Emberites' first winter above ground. Lina and Doon find a mysterious book that alludes to a mysterious device that was left outside Ember. An advance copy was given out to attendees of the San Diego Comic-Con 2008 who visited the Random House booth.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scott Eastwood</span> American actor (born 1986)

Scott Eastwood is an American actor. The son of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, he has starred in several of his father's films, including Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Gran Torino (2008), Invictus (2009), and Trouble with the Curve (2012), as well as Texas Chainsaw (2013), Fury (2014), The Longest Ride (2015), Suicide Squad (2016), Snowden (2016), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Pacific Rim Uprising (2018), The Outpost (2020), Wrath of Man (2021) and Fast X (2023).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maggie Stiefvater</span> American author (born 1981)

Margaret Stiefvater is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known for her fantasy series The Wolves of Mercy Falls and The Raven Cycle.

Greg Neri is an American author and is known for his work in young adult fiction. He has written books in free verse and novelistic prose, as well as graphic novels and non-fiction. He has written 14 books for young people. Neri is the winner of the Michael L. Printz award and a Coretta Scott King honor and has received awards from the American Library Association, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the International Reading Association.

An ember is a glowing hot coal from carbon-based material.

<i>An Ember in the Ashes</i> 2015 novel by Sabaa Tahir

An Ember in the Ashes is a fantasy novel written by American author Sabaa Tahir. It was published on April 28, 2015 by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House. It is the first book in the An Ember in the Ashes series, followed by A Torch Against the Night. In a fantasy world inspired by Ancient Rome, the story follows a girl named Laia spying for rebels against the reigning empire in exchange for their help in rescuing her captive brother; and a boy named Elias struggling to free himself from being an enforcer of a tyrannical regime. The novel is narrated in the first-person, alternating between the points of view of Laia and Elias.

Car Trouble may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sabaa Tahir</span> American young adult novelist

Sabaa Tahir is an American young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestsellingAn Ember in the Ashes, its sequels, and the novel All My Rage.

References

  1. "Jeanne DuPrau".
  2. Marianne Dyson. "Book Review: The City of Ember". www.nss.org. National Space Agency. Archived from the original on December 10, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  3. "The People of Sparks, by Jeanne DuPrau". www.swanhillslibrary.ab.ca. Swan Hills Municipal Library. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  4. "Car Trouble". www.kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Media LLC. July 1, 2005. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  5. "City of Ember (2008)". IMDb .