Jenny Han
Jenny Han is an American novelist, young adult author, children's writer, screenwriter, film director, executive producer, and showrunner, born on September 3, 1980, in Richmond.
Han attended Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies before going on to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later pursued further education at The New School. In addition to her writing career, Han has also worked as a librarian.
Among her notable works are To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty. The To All the Boys trilogy was adapted into a film series for Netflix, and The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy was adapted into a television series for Prime Video. Han's work has been recognized with the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.
Han's writing operates consistently within the romance genre, with her fiction directed at young adult and children's audiences.
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College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work.
Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.
When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.
I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope. Because I don't think I've ever read a YA book that feels completely hopeless at the end.
With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.
I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.
