Practical But Impetuous With Jennifer Niven

First Draft Episode #322: Jennifer Niven

Jennifer Niven is the Emmy Award-winning #1 New York Times
bestselling author of ten books, including YA novels All the
Bright Places, Holding up the Universe, Breathless, and Take Me
With You When You Go (with David Levithan).


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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Penelope Niven, biographer and author of Carl Sandburg: A
Biography and Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet, Thornton
Wilder: A Life, Steichen: A Biography, memoirist (Swimming
Lessons: Life Lessons From the Pool, From Diving In to
Treading Water) and co-author of James Earl Jones’s
autobiography, Voices and Silences.




The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by
Sebastian Junger




Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under
the Banner of Heaven, Missoula, and more




Carl Sandburg, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (for
Cornhuskers and Complete Poems) and biographer (for his
four-book series, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years).




Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club and
Books For Living: Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, and
Embracing Life, and co-author of Send: Why People Email So
Badly and How to Do It Better with Dave Shipley




Jennifer’s original agent, John A. Ware, who passed away in
2013. Read his obituary in Publisher’s Weekly.




Jennifer’s current agent, Kerry Sparks at the Levine
Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency




David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic and the
author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy,
Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s
Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.




Ava Dellaira, author of Love Letters to the Dead and In
Search of Us. Listen to her First Draft interviews here and
here.




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Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star
talks about her new YA, Instructions For Dancing and her
brand new publishing venture: co-publisher of Joy Revolution,
a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories
starring people of color. Hear her First Draft interviews
here and here.




Morgan Matson, New York
Times bestselling author of YA contemporary novels, including
Save the Date, The Unexpected Everything, and Take Me Home
Tonight. Hear her First Draft interviews here, here, and
here.




Mary H. K. Choi, New York
Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact, Permanent
Record and Yolk. Hear her First Draft interviews here and
here.




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