Sara Gran (born 1971) is an American author.

Career

Gran is the author of seven novels, including ''Come Closer'' and ''Dope''. Her novel ''Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead'' was the first in a series; it won the 2012

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for Best Novel. Her third Claire DeWitt novel, ''The Infinite Blacktop'', was published on September 18, 2018. Gran started the small press Dreamland Books.

Television and film

A number of Gran's novels have come to the attention of the film and television industry. Her 2003 novel ''Come Closer'' was looked at by director

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although, , nothing has yet been released. The same applies to her 2006 novel ''Dope'', which had actress

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slated for the lead role, although no episodes have yet been released. Gran has written scripts for the

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show '' Southland'' and two other series, ''Chance'' and
Berlin Station
'. She is also developing an adaptation of Corinne May Botz's novel ''Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death'' with director/producer

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. Gran is also the author of the eight-episode

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audiodrama ''Marigold'' released in 2021.

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* Updated 2016-02-28 * * 1971 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American crime fiction writers American mystery novelists American women novelists Writers from New York City American women mystery writers 21st-century American women writers Novelists from New York (state) {{US-novelist-1970s-stub