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David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American young adult fiction author and editor. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List. Six of Levithan's books have won or been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, making him the most celebrated author in the category. Early life and career Levithan was born and raised in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, to a family of Jewish background, graduating in 1990 from Millburn High School. At nineteen, Levithan received an internship at Scholastic Corporation where he began working on The Baby-Sitters Club series. Levithan still works for Scholastic as an editorial director. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a young-adult imprint of Scholastic Press focusing on new voices and new authors. PUSH publishes edgier material for young adults and is where Patricia McCormick got her start with 2002's Cut.In an interview with Barnes & Noble, Levithan said that he learned how to write books that were both funny and touching from Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. He continues to work as both a writer and editor saying, "I love editing just as much, if not more than writing".Three of Levithan's novels have been made into films. His first collaboration with Rachel Cohn, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, was published in 2006 and adapted for the big screen in 2008. Levithan's 2012 novel of the same name was adapted into Every Day, a romantic fantasy drama, released in 2018. His second collaboration with Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, was published in 2007 and adapted into a film of the same name in 2015. Levithan has been a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey.In 2016, Levithan won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for The Realm of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love Is the Higher Law, How They Met and Other Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Works Novels The Lover's Dictionary (2011)Young adult novels Disaster Zone series: In the Eye of the Tornado (1998) In the Heart of the Quake (1998)Likely Story series (with David Ozanich and Chris Van Etten; as David Van Etten): Likely Story (2008) All That Glitters (2008) Red Carpet Riot (2009)Will Grayson, Will Grayson series: Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010), with John Green Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story (2015)Dash & Lily series, with Rachel Cohn: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (2010) The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily (2016) Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily (2020)Every Day series: Every Day (2012) Another Day (2015) Someday (2018)Stand-alones: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) The Mummy (1999), with Stephen Sommers Survivor (2000), with David Benjamin, The Sixth Sense: Secrets from Beyond series #1 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) Boy Meets Boy (2003) The Perfect Score (2004) The Realm of Possibility (2004) Are We There Yet? (2005) Marly's Ghost (2005), illustrated by Brian Selznick Wide Awake (2006) Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2006), with Rachel Cohn Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2007), with Rachel Cohn Love is the Higher Law (2009) Every You, Every Me (2011) Two Boys Kissing (2013) Invisibility (2013), with Andrea Cremer You Know Me Well (2016), with Nina LaCour Dear Diary (2017) Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah (2018), with Rachel Cohn The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as Told to His Brother) (2021) Take Me With You When You Go (2021) with Jennifer Niven. Answers in the Pages (2022) Wide Awake Now (2024)Young adult short stories Collections: How They Met, and Other Stories (2008), collection of 18 short stories: "Starbucks Boy", "Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat", "The Alumni Interview", "The Good Witch", "The Escalator, a Love Story", "The Number of People who Meet on Airplanes", "Andrew Chang", "Flirting with Waiters", "Lost Sometimes", "Princes", "Breaking and Entering", "Skipping the Prom", "A Romantic Inclination", "What a Song Can Do", "Without Saying", "How They Met", "Memory Dance", "Intersection" Six Earlier Days (2012), Every Day series #0.5, collection of 6 short stories: "Day 3722", "Day 2919", "Day 5624", "Day 5909", "Day 5915", "Day 5931" 19 Love Songs (2020), collection of 16 short stories, 2 poems and 1 comic: "Quiz Bowl Antichrist", "Day 2934" (Every Day series #0.1), "The Good Girls", "The Quarterback and the Cheerleader" (a Boy Meets Boy story), "The Mulberry Branch" (poem), "Your Temporary Santa", "Storytime", "A Better Writer", "8-Song Memoir", "Snow Day" (a Two Boys Kissing story), "The Woods", "A Brief History of First Kisses" (comic), "As the Philadelphia Queer Youth Choir Sings Katy Perry's 'Firework'", "The Vunerable Hours", "Twelve Months", "The Hold", "How My Parents Met", "We", "Give Them Words" (poem)Uncollected short stories: "A Word From the Nearly Distant Past", story in How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity (2009) "The Skeleton Keeper", story in Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt Your Dreams (2010) "Day 3196", Every Day series #0.2, first published in the National Book Store edition of Someday (2018)Comics Be More Chill: The Graphic Novel (2021), with Ned Vizzini, illustrations by Nick BertozziNon-fiction Malcolm in the Middle Scrapbook: Malcolm's Family Album (2000), scrapbook Journey Through the Lost Canyon (2000), guide 101 Ways to Get Away With Anything! (Malcolm in the Middle), or Malcolm's Really Useful Guide to Getting Away with Anything! (2002), guide 101 Ways to Stop Being Bored! (2003), guideAnthologies and novels edited You Are Here, This is Now: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America: A Push Anthology (2002) Friends: Stories about New Friends, Old Friends and Unexpectedly True Friends, ed. with Ann M. Martin (2005) When We Are, What We See: A Push Anthology (2005) The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Other Identities, ed. with Billy Merrell (2006) 21 Proms, ed. with Daniel Ehrenhaft (2007) We Are Quiet, We Are Loud: The best young writers and artists in America: a Push anthology (2008) How to Say Goodbye in Robot, a novel by Natalie Standiford (2009)Novelizations Novel 10 Things I Hate About You, novelization of film 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Novel The Mummy, novelization of film The Mummy (1999) Novel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, novelization of film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) Novel The Perfect Score, novelization of film The Perfect Score (2004)Adaptations Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), film directed by Peter Sollett, based on young adult novel Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2015), film directed by Kristin Hanggi, based on young adult novel Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Every Day (2018), film directed by Michael Sucsy, based on young adult novel Every Day Dash & Lily (2020), series created by Joe Tracz, based on young .... 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His Girl Next Door
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Nothing to Hide
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Law of Attraction
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Tempting the King
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A Bookshop to Die For
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Bewitching a Highlander
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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The Seduction Series Boxset
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Hot Off the Press
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Salvation
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Little Women
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Finding Cinderella
Colleen Hoover#1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after. A chance encounter in the dark leads ei...
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Always Yours
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Dracula
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Awaken Me
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The Next Girl
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Man In The Water
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Whiskey Girl
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The Odyssey
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Wuthering Heights
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Peace on Earth
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Teach Me
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Enemies With Benefits
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Coffee Girl
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Once Upon A One-Night Stand
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Silver Santa
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Christmas in Sweetbriar Cove
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The Great Gatsby
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All Fired Up
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Inception of Gold
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Meditations
Emperor of Rome Marcus AureliusMeditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.
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Saltwater Cove
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The Art of War
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How to Choose a Guy in 10 Days
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Eternal
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Good Guy
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His Own Heaven
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Caught Up with the Captain
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The Icing on the Cake
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Holy Bible
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Escape, A New Life
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Get Lucky
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Death at Hazel House
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Becoming Lady Dalton
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Become A Better Version of Yourself
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Hard Love
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The Four Loves
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