Daisy Whitney is an American
young adult fiction
Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults.
The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...
author and multimedia reporter. Her novels include ''The Mockingbirds'', ''The Rivals'', ''When You Were Here'', ''Starry Nights'', and ''The Fire Artist''.
Biography
Whitney has a 1994 degree in art history from
Brown University. In 2007, while working as a reporter for ''
TelevisionWeek'', Whitney created the
webcast
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"New Media Minute" with her videographer husband,
broadcast on
BeetTV.com, iMedia and other sites.
She has published several
young adult fiction
Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults.
The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...
novels. ''The Mockingbirds'' was published in 2010,
followed by its sequel ''The Rivals'' in 2012.
In 2013, she published ''When You Were Here'',
which she has said was in part inspired by the film ''
Lost in Translation''. ''Starry Nights'' was also published in 2013,
followed by ''The Fire Artist'' in 2014.
Books
* ''When You Were Here,''
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emil ...
, 2013, ISBN 978-0-316-20974-8
* ''The Mockingbirds'',
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emil ...
, 2012, ISBN 978-0-316-09053-7
* ''Starry Nights,''
Bloomsbury
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Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
. 2013,
ISBN 978-1-61963-133-5
References
External links
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American women journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brown University alumni
21st-century American women writers