Gayle Forman facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Gayle Forman
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Forman at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | June 5, 1970 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Children's books, young adult books, novels |
| Notable works | If I Stay Where She Went Just One Day Just One Year |
Gayle Forman (born June 5, 1970) is an American author. She is famous for her young adult fiction novels. Her book If I Stay was a New York Times best seller. It was also made into a movie.
Career as a Writer
Gayle Forman started her writing career at Seventeen magazine. She wrote many articles about young people and social issues. Later, she became a freelance journalist. She wrote for popular magazines like Glamour and Cosmopolitan.
In 2002, Gayle and her husband traveled around the world. This trip gave her ideas for her first book. It was a travelogue called You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On the Fringes of a Shrinking World. In 2007, she published her first young adult novel, Sisters in Sanity. This book was based on an article she had written earlier.
The If I Stay Series
In 2009, Forman released If I Stay. This book is about a 17-year-old girl named Mia. Mia is in a serious car accident. She is in a coma but can hear and understand everything around her. The book won the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award. It also won a 2010 Indies Choice Book Award.
The movie version of If I Stay came out in 2014. It starred Chloë Grace Moretz. The story continued with a sequel called Where She Went. This book was released in 2011. It tells the story from the point of view of Adam, Mia's boyfriend. It explores their relationship a few years after the accident.
The Just One Day Series
In January 2013, Forman published Just One Day. This novel follows Allyson Healey. On the last day of her European trip, Allyson meets Willem, a Dutch actor. She makes a quick decision to go to Paris with him. They spend a day together before he disappears.
The sequel, Just One Year, came out in October 2013. This book tells the same story as Just One Day. But this time, it's from Willem's perspective. The final part of Allyson and Willem's story is Just One Night. This is a short novella released in 2014.
Forman also wrote her first novel for adults, Leave Me. It was released in 2016.
Awards
Gayle Forman has won several awards for her books.
- British Fantasy Award (2010)
- ALA/YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (2010)
She was also nominated for other awards, including:
- South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult Book Award (2011)
- Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction (2009)
Personal Life
Gayle Forman lives in Brooklyn, New York. She lives there with her husband, Nick Tucker, and their daughter, Willa Forman.
Books
- You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World (2005)
- Sisters in Sanity (2007)
- If I Stay (2009)
- Where She Went (2011)
- Just One Day (2013)
- Just One Year (2013)
- Just One Night (2014)
- I Was Here (2015)
- Leave Me (2016)
- I Have Lost My Way (2018)
- We Are Inevitable (2021)
- Frankie & Bug (2021)
- Not Nothing (2024)
- After Life (2025)
