Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman

Shusterman at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born Neal Shusterman
(1962-11-12) November 12, 1962
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Website
storyman.com

Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Challenger Deep.

Early life and education

Shusterman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Even from a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. At age 8, Shusterman sent a letter to E. B. White, informing him that he believed Charlotte's Web needed a sequel. White replied, stating that he thought the book was fine as it was, requiring no sequel, but encouraged Shusterman to continue writing. At age 16, Shusterman and his family moved to Mexico City.[1] He finished high school there at the American School Foundation and quotes, "Having an international experience changed my life, giving me a fresh perspective on the world, and a sense of confidence I might not have otherwise." He attended the University of California, Irvine, where he double-majored in psychology and theater, and was also on the varsity swim team. During his years there, he wrote a popular humor column for the school paper.

Career

After college, Shusterman worked as an assistant at Irvin Arthur Associates, a talent agency in Los Angeles, where Lloyd Segan became his agent. Within a year, Shusterman had his first book deal, and a screenwriting job. He currently lives in Southern California with his four children.[2]

Shusterman won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the 2008 California Young Reader Medal for The Schwa Was Here. He served as a judge for the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2012.[3] Some of his other novels include The Dark Side of Nowhere, Everlost, What Daddy Did, The Shadow Club, The Shadow Club Rising, The Eyes of Kid Midas, and the Star Shards Chronicles: Scorpion Shards, Thief of Souls, and Shattered Sky. His novels Downsiders and Full Tilt have each won over 20 awards. Unwind has won more than 30 awards, and is now in development with Constantin Films as a feature film series. He can be found on Facebook and Twitter as simply "nealshusterman."

Shusterman has also written for TV, including the Original Disney Channel movie Pixel Perfect, as well as episodes of Goosebumps and Animorphs.[2]

Shusterman was invited by Orson Scott Card to write novels parallel to Ender's Game about other characters from the series, but schedules didn't permit, and Card wrote Ender's Shadow and the subsequent series himself.[4]

Shusterman's is currently in early talks on writing for the upcoming Goosebumps video game.

Awards

Bibliography

Fictional Series

The Accelerati Trilogy (with Eric Elfman)

Antsy Bonano

Dark Fusion

Shadow Club

Skinjacker Trilogy

Star Shards

The Unwind Dystology

The X-Files Universe

  • 3) Bad Sign (1997) [writing as Easton Royce] [49]
  • 10) Dark Matter (1999) [writing as Easton Royce]
  • 8) Voltage (1996) [writing as Easton Royce]

Novels

Picture Books

Short Stories

Short Story Collections

Games

Nonfiction

Poems

References

  1. ↑ Gale, Thomas. "Neal Shusterman Biography". BookRags. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
  2. 1 2 Shusterman, Neal. "Neal Shusterman: Bio". storyman.com. Self published. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  3. ↑ "Announcing the 2012 PEN Literary Award Recipients". PEN American Center. October 15, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ Card himself describes the origins of the idea for Ender's Shadow and Shusterman's early involvement in the Foreword of some editions of Ender's Shadow, including ISBN 978-0-7653-4240-9)
  5. ↑ "Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners". Horn Book Magazine. May 30, 2011. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
  6. ↑ "Winners". CYRM. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
  7. ↑ "2015 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature". Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ Alter, Alexandra (19 November 2015). "Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "The Accelerati Trilogy, Book One: Tesla’s Attic". Disney Publishing Worldwide. 2014-01-23. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  10. ↑ Shusterman, Neal. "Tesla’s Attic – Book Description". storyman.com. Self published. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  11. ↑ "TESLA'S ATTIC". Kirkus Reviews. 2013-12-07. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  12. ↑ "The Accelerati Trilogy, Book Two: Edison’s Alley". Disney Publishing Worldwide. 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  13. ↑ Shusterman, Neal. "Edison’s Alley – Book Description". storyman.com. Self published. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  14. ↑ Shusterman, Neal. "June 2015 News Tidbits". storyman.com. Self published. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  15. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/schwa/
  16. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/the-schwa-was-here/
  17. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/antsydoestime/
  18. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/antsy-does-time/
  19. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/shipoutofluck/
  20. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/ship-out-luck/
  21. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/dreadlocks/
  22. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/dread-locks/
  23. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/redridershood/
  24. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/dark-fusion/
  25. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/ducklingugly/
  26. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/duckling-ugly/
  27. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/shadowclub/
  28. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman-5/the-shadow-club-2/
  29. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/shadowclubrising/
  30. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/the-shadow-club-rising/
  31. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/everlost/
  32. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/everlost/
  33. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/everwild/
  34. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/everwild/
  35. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/everfound/
  36. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/everfound/
  37. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/scorpion/
  38. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/thief/
  39. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/shattered/
  40. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/shattered-sky/
  41. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/unwind/
  42. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/unwind/
  43. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/unsouled/
  44. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/unsouled/
  45. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/unsouled/
  46. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/undivided/
  47. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/undivided/
  48. ↑ https://catalog.simonandschuster.com/TitleDetails/TitleDetails.aspx?cid=1313&pn=1&isbn=9781481457231&FilterBy=9&FilterVal=Teen+Fiction&FilterByName=Subformat&ob=0&ed=&showcart=N&camefrom=&find=&a=
  49. ↑ royce, easton (1997). the x files bad sign (first ed.). HarperCollins. ISBN 9780064471701.
  50. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman-2/speeding-bullet-2/
  51. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman-6/what-daddy-did-2/
  52. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman-3/the-eyes-of-kid-midas-2/
  53. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/darksideofnowhere/
  54. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman-3/the-dark-side-of-nowhere-2/
  55. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/downsiders/
  56. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neil-shusterman/downsiders/
  57. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/full-tilt/
  58. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/full-tilt/
  59. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/bruiser/
  60. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/bruiser/
  61. ↑ http://www.storyman.com/books/challenger-deep/
  62. ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/neal-shusterman/challenger-deep/
  63. ↑ http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062295163/resurrection-bay

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