Bennett Madison | |
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 Bennett Madison at the 2013 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | March 28, 1981 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Genre | novel |
| Notable works | Lulu Dark YA series |
Bennett Madison (born March 28, 1981) is an American author.
Bennett Madison | |
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| Bennett Madison at the 2013 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | March 28, 1981 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Genre | novel |
| Notable works | Lulu Dark YA series |
Bennett Madison (born March 28, 1981) is an American author.
Bennett Madison was born in 1981 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was educated at Montgomery Blair High School and attended Sarah Lawrence College. He was a childhood friend of John Walker Lindh. [1]
Madison's first book, I Hate Valentine’s Day, a light polemic against Valentine’s Day, was published in 2004. He moved to Brooklyn, New York shortly thereafter and began work on several novels. He has published two additional books— Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls (2005) and Lulu Dark & the Summer of the Fox (2006)—about a teenage girl detective, Lulu Dark. In 2009 HarperTeen published his third novel, The Blonde of the Joke. [2] HarperTeen published September Girls in 2013. [3]
Madison has described himself as being "an open and enthusiastic gay." [4]
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Linda Jean Barry, known professionally as Lynda Barry, is an American cartoonist. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me, about an interracial friendship between two young girls, which was adapted into a play. Her second illustrated novel, Cruddy, first appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons!, a graphic novel she terms "autobifictionalography". What It Is (2008) is a graphic novel that is part memoir, part collage and part workbook, in which Barry instructs her readers in methods to open up their own creativity; it won the comics industry's 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
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