Elizabeth Fama
Born: March 30, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Fama is a native Chicagoan. She attended University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, has a BA in biology with honors from the University of Chicago, and an MBA and a PhD in economics and finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Biography: Elizabeth Fama enjoys running obsessively while downloading audiobooks into her brain, swimming, tennis, and cooking Sunday Dinners for her extended Italian-American family. She and her husband raised four creative children in Chicago before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Elizabeth pretends that she's living in Tuscany while she works on an adult manuscript set in sixteenth-century Florence.
Awards:
- Monstrous Beauty 2013 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book, and winner of the 2013 Odyssey Honor Award
- Plus One Nerdy Award winner and "Best Book" by Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature
- Overboard ALA 2003 Best Book for Young Adults, a society of Midland Authors Honor Award winner, and a nominee for five state readers' choice awards.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethfama
Web: http://www.elizabethfama.com
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fama
Selected Titles
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Monstrous beauty / ISBN: 1250034256 OCLC: 756767595 Farrar Straus Giroux, New York : 2012. Tells, in alternating chapters, the story of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka. |
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Overboard / ISBN: 0812626524 OCLC: 48920648 Cricket Books, Chicago : 2002. Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith. |
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Plus one ISBN: 1250062942 OCLC: 919321153 In an alternate United States where Day and Night populations are forced to lead separate--but not equal--lives, a desperate Night girl falls for a seemingly privileged Day boy and places them both in danger as she gets caught up in the beginnings of a resistance movement. |