“I
do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those
writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking
different angles on them.” – Nancy Werlin
Born
in Salem, MA on Oct. 29, 1961 Werlin has made her name as a writer of YA
novels, winning a National Book Award nomination for The Rules of
Survival, and winning an Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel for The
Killer's Cousin. She also was an Edgar award finalist
for Locked Inside.
Werlin started reading at age of 3 and was reading up to 10 books a week by 3rd grade. She even read encyclopedias, especially those that contained an appendix of plot synopses for famous novels. A graduate of Yale (in English) Werlin she now has written 14 novels
“By the time I was ten, I knew I wanted to be a writer to create what I loved so much,” she said. "I just read all the time and it occurred to me that somebody had to write these things—and why shouldn't it be me?"
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