Cylin Busby

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Cylin Busby
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Busby in 2023
Born Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
OccupationWriter, editor
NationalityAmerican
Period1990s-present
Genre Young Adult fiction, memoir, supernatural fiction, thriller
Website
cylinbusby.com

Cylin Busby is an author and screenwriter, known for the best-selling true crime memoir, The Year We Disappeared, written with her father John Busby.

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Early life

Born the youngest of three children (she has two older brothers, Eric Busby and Shawn Busby), Cylin grew up in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1979, her police officer father, John Busby, was seriously injured in a shooting. [1] During the resulting investigation, the family was relocated and lived in hiding for five years. [2] [3] Cylin and John co-wrote a memoir about the experience which went on to become a best seller, placing at #3 on the nonfiction lists for The Wall Street Journal [4] [5] and Publishers Weekly. [6] [7] The book also earned #1 best seller placement on Amazon's nonfiction list. Their memoir was featured in 2009 on the CBS television program 48 Hours in an episode titled Live to Tell: The Year We Disappeared [8] and was optioned for a motion picture in 2014.

Education and career

Cylin graduated from Hampshire College (B.A.). Her publishing career began at Random House. She would later work at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster as a children's book editor. In 2000, she relocated to Los Angeles where she began working as the Senior Editor of Teen Magazine. She has written more than 20 books for young readers and is published in 15 countries.

Personal

Cylin lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her latest novel is the YA thriller, The Stranger Game. [9] HarperCollins announced the publication of her next picture book, The White House Cat, for January 2022. [10]

In 2022, Cylin had an unexpected encounter with P-22, a famous mountain lion from Griffith Park in Los Angeles, who showed up on her front porch. [11]

Awards and recognition

For The Year We Disappeared

For Blink Once

For The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs

For The Stranger Game

Works

Fiction

Nonfiction

Picture Book

Memoir

Series

  1. The Campfire Crush
  2. The Dance Dilemma
  3. Ski Trip Trouble

Anthology

Short Story

Audio book

Film and television

Screenplay: Rebecca and Quinn Get Scared (with Nanci Katz)

Screenplay: Extremophile (sci-fi/horror)

Screenplay: A Tale of Two Christmases (written with Nanci Katz) (Crown Media/Hallmark)

Screenplay: Weekend to Die For (written with Nanci Katz)


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