Janelle Brown (born September 12, 1973) is an American novelist.
From 1995 to 1998, she worked at ''
Wired
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'', helping launch ''Wired News'', and was named one of the Top 25 Women on the Web. From 1998 to 2002, Brown worked as a senior writer at ''
Salon.com
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'', writing about technology and culture.
She was also the co-founder of ''Maxi'', an early online feminist zine.
Five of her novels have made the ''
New York Times
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'' bestseller list. Her 2020 novel ''
Pretty Things
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'' is currently being adapted as a television series reported to include actress
Nicole Kidman
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.
Novels
* ''All We Ever Wanted Was Everything,'' 2008
* ''This is Where We Live,'' 2010
* ''Watch Me Disappear,'' 2017
* ''Pretty Things,'' 2020
* ''I'll Be You'', 2022
* ''What Kind of Paradise'', 2025
References
External links
www.janellebrown.com
1973 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
American fiction writers
American women novelists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
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