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about the author
Nicola Yoon
• Jamaica and Brooklyn New York
• majored in electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Cornell University
• . Taking a creative writing class as an elective got her "hooked on writing„
• .[3] After graduation, she attended the Master of Creative Writing program at Emerson College.
• Yoon worked as a programmer for investment management firms for 20 years before the publication of her first
book.
•  She was inspired to write her debut novel, Everything, Everything, after the birth of her biracial daughter. Yoon
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wanted to write a book that reflected her child on the pages.

•  Her first-time mother worries about protecting her baby from danger gave her the idea to write a story about
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a 17-year-old girl who needed the same level of protection.[6][7] It took Yoon three years to write the book, writing
early in the mornings while working full-time and raising her infant daughter. [3][6] Her husband, Korean American
 graphic designer David Yoon, drew the illustrations. [3][6][8]
• Everything, Everything was released in September 2015, and debuted as No. 1 New York Times best seller for
young adult hardcover books.[6][9] The book spent 40 weeks on the best seller list.[10] A film of the same name
 based on the book, adapted by J. Mills Goodloe and starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson, was released
in May 2017.[11]
• Yoon's second book, The Sun Is Also A Star, was released in November 2016. The book also reached number one
on the New York Times Best Seller list.[12] It was a 2016 National Book Award finalist,[13]included in 
The New York Times Book Review list of Notable Children's Books of 2016,[14] and listed in the top 10 books of
2016 by Entertainment Weekly[15] and the Los Angeles Times.[16] In December 2016, it was announced that the film
rights to the book had been acquired by Warner Brothers and MGM.[17] The movie, directed by Ry Russo-Young,
and starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton, is due for release on May 17, 2019.[18]
• Yoon is associated with the We Need Diverse Books organization, with a mission to increase diversity and
promote the representation of diversity in literature.[8][19][20] The Sun Is Also A Star was honored as a finalist of the 
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award in 2017.
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