Lily Anderson

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Lily Anderson
Born (1988-12-15) December 15, 1988 (age 34)
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genre Young adult fiction
Years active2016–present
Notable worksUndead Girl Gang
Website
mslilyanderson.com

Lily Anderson (December 15, 1988) [1] is an author of young adult fiction, best known for her Indie's Choice Book Award-nominated novel Undead Girl Gang.

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Personal life

Anderson is an Afrolatina of Puerto Rican descent. [2] She has been a Wiccan since she was eight years old. [3] After she dropped out of college at age 18, Anderson wrote her first book and decided she wanted to become a published writer. [4]

Anderson grew up doing theatre and is a self-proclaimed theatre geek, saying that she did her first Shakespeare play when she was 12 or 13 years old, which ultimately led to her writing both novels in her debut young adult series The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You as retellings of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and William Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing. [3]

Anderson is an elementary school librarian and lives in Northern California. [4]

She names American screenwriter and director Shonda Rimes and American plus-size model Tess Holliday as the sources of some of her inspiration. [5]

Selected works

She drew on her own experience as a Wiccan for her novel Undead Girl Gang, in which a teenage Wiccan resurrects her dead best friend. [6] Other inspirations for the novel include dark comedy teenage obsessions of hers, namely the movies The Craft , Heathers and Death Becomes Her . [3]

Bibliography

Series

Messina Academy Duology

  1. The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You (St. Martin's Griffin, 2016)
  2. Not Now Not Ever (Wednesday Books, 2017)

Standalones

Awards

Nominated

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References

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