Julianna Baggott

Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. She is a 2013 recipient of the Alex Awards.

Life

Baggott has published over twenty books under her own name and pen names. Her recent novels, Pure and Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders, were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. To date, there are over one hundred foreign editions of her novels.

Baggott began publishing when she was twenty-two. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, ''Girl Talk'', while she was still in her twenties. ''Girl Talk'' was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by ''Boston Globe'' bestseller ''The Miss America Family'', and then ''Boston Herald'' Book Club selection, ''The Madam'', a historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote ''Which Brings Me to You'' with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews) optioned by producer Richard Brown and adapted by Keith Bunin.

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She also writes bestselling novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode as well as under Julianna Baggott. ''The Anybodies'' trilogy was a ''People Magazine'' pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a ''Washington Post'' Book of the Week, a '' Girls' Life'' Top Ten, a Booksense selection, and was in development at Nickelodeon/Paramount; ''The Slippery Map'' (fall 2007), and the prequel to Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007), a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. For two years, Bode was a recurring personality on Sirius XM Radio.

Julianna's Boston Red Sox novel ''The Prince of Fenway Park'' (HarperCollins), was published in spring 2009. ''The Ever Breath'' (Random House) was published in December 2009.

Baggott has also published four collections of poetry (''This Country of Mothers'', ''Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees'', and ''Lizzie Borden in Love'') and Instructions, Abject and Fuming. Her poems have been published in major literary publications, including ''Poetry'', ''The American Poetry Review'', and '' The Best American Poetry''.

Baggott's work has appeared in ''AGNI'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Boston Globe'', '' Glamour'', ''Ms.'', '' Real Simple'', and read on NPR's ''Here and Now'' and ''Talk of the Nation''. Her work is often optioned for film and television, and her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized.

She lives in Florida with her husband writer David G.W. Scott and their four children.

Awards

* American Library Association Alex Award
* Delaware Division of Arts fellowship
* Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowship
* Ragdale Foundation fellowship
* Bread Loaf Writers' Conference fellowship

Work online

"Pep Talk from Julianna Baggott"
''National Novel Writing Month'', November 2009
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Real Simple
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The key to literary success? Be a man--or write like one.
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"Mary Todd on her Deathbed"
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"Monica Lewinsky thinks of Bill Clinton While Standing Naked in Front of a Hotel Mirror,"
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"My Mother's National Geographics,"
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"My Cousin Attempts Suicide In Gander Hill Prison,"
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"What the poets could have been,"
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References

External links

Author's blog

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Did Publishers Overlook Women Writers
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Magical Things: An Interview with Julianna Baggott at PopMatters
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An Interview with Julianna Baggott and Steve Almond
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Radio Interview with Julianna Baggott on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 4)
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1969 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
Florida State University faculty
American women poets
American women essayists
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American essayists
Novelists from Florida
American women academics