Megan Angelo (born ca. 1985) [1] is an American journalist and the author of the 2020 novel Followers. [2]
Megan Angelo (born ca. 1985) [1] is an American journalist and the author of the 2020 novel Followers. [2]
Angelo grew up in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and has two younger brothers. [3] [4] [5] She attended St. Isidore Elementary School and Quakertown High School. [4] She graduated from Villanova University in 2006. [3] [4]
Angelo has written articles about pop culture and parenting, for outlets including Glamour , the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal , Slate , and Elle. [6] [7] [8] [3] [5] [9]
Angelo's novel Followers was released in hardcover by HarperCollins on January 14, 2020. [10] It was released in paperback later that year. [11]
Bethanne Patrick, writing for the Washington Post, called Followers "terrific writing about terrifying ideas." [12] Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review and noted, "Endless clever details and suspenseful plotting make this speculative-fiction debut an addictive treat." [13] Leah Donnella, of NPR, named it one of the best realistic fiction books of 2020. [14]
Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft (1994), The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007), State of Wonder (2011), Commonwealth (2016), The Dutch House (2019), and Tom Lake (2023). The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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