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Lin-Manuel Miranda (; born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, rapper and librettist. He created the Broadway musicals In the Heights (2005) and Hamilton (2015), and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana (2016), Vivo, and Encanto (both 2021). He has received numerous accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Grammy Awards, along with nominations for two Academy Awards. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018. Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008, writing the music and lyrics for and starring in the musical In the Heights, which won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It was later adapted as a 2021 film of the same name. Miranda returned to Broadway in 2015, writing the script, music, and lyrics for as well as starring in the musical Hamilton, which won near-universal acclaim from critics and audiences and became a popular culture phenomenon. Hamilton won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a record 16 Tony Awards and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. The Hamilton cast recording spent 10 weeks atop Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart and became the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010s.A frequent collaborator of the Walt Disney Company, Miranda has written original songs for the studio. He gained two Academy Award for Best Original Song nominations for "How Far I'll Go" and "Dos Oruguitas" from Moana and Encanto, respectively. The song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto broke various records and marked Miranda's first number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles charts. He starred as Jack in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns (2018), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. For his performance in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton released in 2020, he received a Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Miranda debuted as a film director with Tick, Tick...Boom! (2021).His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company (2009–2010) and His Dark Materials (2019–2022). Miranda hosted Saturday Night Live in 2016 and had a guest role on Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2018; he was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He has been politically active on behalf of Puerto Rico. Miranda met with politicians in 2016 to speak out in favor of debt relief for Puerto Rico and raised funds for rescue efforts and disaster relief after Hurricane Maria in 2017. Early life and education Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in New York City to Luz Towns-Miranda, a clinical psychologist, and Luis Miranda Jr., a political consultant. He is of predominately Puerto Rican descent and also has distant Mexican, English, and African American ancestry. His parents named him "Lin-Manuel" after a poem about the Vietnam War by Puerto Rican writer José Manuel Torres Santiago entitled "Nana roja para mi hijo Lin Manuel" ("Red Lullaby for My Son Lin Manuel"). Miranda grew up in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan and was raised as a Catholic. During childhood and his teens, Miranda spent at least one month each year with his grandparents in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. Miranda has one older sister, Luz, who is the Chief Financial Officer of the MirRam Group, a strategic consulting firm in Government and Communications.Miranda attended Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School. Among his classmates was Chris Hayes, now a journalist. He was Miranda's first director when Miranda starred in a school play, described by Hayes as "a 20-minute musical that featured a maniacal fetal pig in a nightmare that [Miranda] had cut up in biology class". His classmates also included Immortal Technique, a rapper who had bullied Miranda, although the two later became friends. Miranda began writing musicals at school.Miranda wrote the earliest draft of what would become his first Broadway musical, In the Heights, in 1999, during his sophomore year of college at Wesleyan University. After the show was accepted by Wesleyan's student theater company, Second Stage, Miranda added freestyle rap and salsa numbers, and the show was premiered there in 1999. Miranda wrote and directed several other musicals at Wesleyan and acted in many other productions, ranging from musicals to William Shakespeare. He graduated from Wesleyan in 2002. Career Theatre 2002–2010: In the Heights In 2002, Miranda and John Buffalo Mailer worked with director Thomas Kail to revise In the Heights. Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes joined the team in 2004. After premiering in Connecticut in 2005 and opening at the 37 Arts Theater off-Broadway in 2007, the musical went to Broadway, opening in March 2008.It was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Miranda's performance in the leading role of Usnavi earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Miranda left the cast of the Broadway production on February 15, 2009.Miranda reprised the role when the national tour of In the Heights played in Los Angeles from June 23 to July 25, 2010. He again joined the tour in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Miranda rejoined the Broadway cast as Usnavi from December 25, 2010, until the production closed on January 9, 2011, after 29 previews and 1,185 regular performances.Miranda created other work for the stage during this period. He wrote Spanish-language dialogue and worked with Stephen Sondheim to translate into Spanish song lyrics for the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story. During this time, he also performed at bar and bat mitzvahs. In 2008, he was invited by composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz to contribute two new songs to a revised version of Schwartz and Nina Faso's 1978 musical Working, which opened in May 2008 at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.During these years, Miranda worked as an English teacher at his former high school, wrote for the Manhattan Times as a columnist and restaurant critic, and composed music for commercials.In 2003, Miranda co-founded Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip hop improv group that has toured the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as the Aspen, Melbourne and Montreal Comedy festivals. The group created a limited television series for Pivot in 2014 and made its Broadway debut on October 2, 2019, at the Booth Theatre. The self-titled show gained positive reviews. 2011–2014: Bring It On and other theatrical work Miranda co-wrote the music and lyrics for Bring It On: The Musical with Tom Kitt and Amanda Green. Bring It On premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2011. The musical began a US national tour on October .... Discover the Lin Manuel Miranda popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lin Manuel Miranda books.
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Aunt Sass
P. L. TraversA collection of charming holiday tales, by the author of Mary Poppins a timeless gift for all ages. Each of the stories in this book was written by P.L. Travers as a holiday gif...
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Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Benjamin Alire SáenzA #1 New York Times bestseller Four starred reviews! “Messily human and sincerely insightful.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclai...
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The Tony Awards
Eila Mell, The American Theatre Wing & Audra McDonaldCommemorating over 75 years of Broadway greatness with neverbefore told stories, rare photos from the American Theatre Wings' archives, and interviews with major honorees ...
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Even More Fantastic Failures
Luke ReynoldsEven the most wellknown people have struggled to succeed! This followup to Fantastic Failures offers up a second dose of fascinating stories featuring flops that turned into triump...
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Eliza Hamilton
Tilar J. MazzeoFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a “vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography” (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling aut...
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The Hamilton Affair
Elizabeth CobbsA New York Times Bestseller and one of the best historical fiction books of 2016 and 2017!“A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton…” CosmopolitanSet against the dramatic...
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Orlando
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS...
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The American Crisis
Writers of The AtlanticSome of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic. The past four yea...
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In the Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarterNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The eagerly awaited followup to the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, LinManuel Miranda’s new book gives readers an extraordinary in...
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My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría HudesGOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and cowriter of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of...
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The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Ishmael Reed“That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton.”Described by the New York Times as “classic activist theater” and “a cross between ‘A Christmas Carol’ and a trial at The Hague’s...
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON, American
Richard BrookhiserAlexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who ca...
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Keep Moving
Dick Van DykeShowbusiness legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who's entering h...
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The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses
Joanna Cole & Bruce DegenTo celebrate its 20th anniversary, Scholastic is rereleasing the ten original Magic School Bus titles in paperback. With updated scientific information, the bestselling science ser...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Heather E. SchwartzPlaywright and Broadway star LinManuel Miranda is best known as the mind behind the smashhit musical Hamilton. This title explores Hamilton and Miranda's other works, as well as hi...
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How to Ruin Everything
George WatskyA New York Times Bestseller"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition." L...
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Viva Hollywood
Luis I. Reyes & Jimmy SmitsThrough an authoritative narrative and lavish photography, this is an indepth history of the stars, films, achievements, and influence of the Hispanic and Latino community in Holly...
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Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Abigail K. PerryLinManuel Miranda’s Hamilton is a transformative work of art. From its initial performance in 2015, this daring interpretation of the life of orphan, hero, and scholar Alexander Ha...
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Warner Bros.
Mark A. Vieira & Ben MankiewiczIn this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of enterta...
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah VowellFrom the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, tha...
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American Like Me
America FerreraINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom awardwinning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of firstperson accounts from prominent figur...
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The Lin-Manuel Miranda Collection
Lin-Manuel MirandaThis collection features 26 defining works from LinManuel's career from In the Heights in 2008 to Encanto in 2021 and everything in between, including, of course, selections from H...
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Patriotism and Profit
Susan NagelThe untold story of how America’s beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key land purchase of the American era:...
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The Great American Whatever
Tim FederleFrom the awardwinning author of Five, Six, Seven, Nate! and Better Nate Than Ever comes “a Holden Caulfield for a new generation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Quinn Roberts is ...
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire SáenzNow a major motion picture starring Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, and Eva Longoria! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)This Printz Honor Book is a “tender, honest exploration of i...
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Sicker in the Head
Judd ApatowNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An allnew collection of honest, hilarious, and enlightening conversations with some of the most exciting names in comedyfrom lifelong comedy nerd Ju...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Penelope S. NelsonLinManuel Miranda's musical Hamilton is a national hit. Read about how he got his start on Broadway and his rise to fame!
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Better Nate Than Ever
Tim FederleSoon to be a Disney+ Original movie!“The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it’s like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended.” LinManuel Miranda, star and...
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Hero of Two Worlds
Mike DuncanFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the p...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Laurie CalkhovenGet to know LinManuel Miranda, the awardwinning creator of Hamilton: An American Musical, in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 ReadytoRead, part of a series of biographies about ...
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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom
Christopher S. WrenThe myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the muchloved Green Mountain Boys of Vermonta “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an oftenmisun...