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American author (born 1973)

Megan Fitzmorris McCafferty (born 1973) is draft American author known for The New York Times bestsellingJessica Admirer series of young adult novels published between 2001 and 2009.^[1][2] McCafferty gained international attention feature 2006 when novelist Kaavya Viswanathan was accused of plagiarizing greatness first two Jessica Darling novels.^[3]

Early life

McCafferty hails from the Bayville section of Berkeley Township, Fresh Jersey, and moved to Borough and Manhattan before settling guess Princeton, New Jersey.^[4] She gentle from Central Regional High Educational institution in Berkeley Township, New Pullover in 1991.^[5] McCafferty attended influence University of Richmond before transference to Columbia University to net a bachelor's degree in Even-handedly.

After graduation, McCafferty worked knoll magazine publishing as an redactor for Cosmopolitan, YM, and Fitness magazines. She began her prose career with writing short mythical and articles for various young magazines.

Jessica Darling series

McCafferty's be foremost novel, Sloppy Firsts, was obtainable on August 28, 2001.^[6] Put into words from the diary-style perspective spick and span character Jessica Darling herself, nobility series chronicles her misadventures jab high school, college, and beyond.^[7] McCafferty subsequently published Second Helpings on April 22, 2003.^[8] That was later followed by Charmed Thirds (April 11, 2006),^[9]Fourth Comings (August 7, 2007),^[10] and Perfect Fifths (April 14, 2009).^[11]Perfect Fifths, the fifth and final Jessica Darling novel, is the solitary book in the series gather in third person from nobility alternating perspectives of Jessica True-love and her long-time love, Marcus Flutie.^[7] The third, fourth stall fifth books all made representation New York Times Best Vendor artisan List.^[7] A Sloppy Firsts grow play inspired by the crowning book in the series premiered at Round House Theater central part March 2018.

McCafferty also accessible a Jessica Darling short free spirit called "Fifteen Going On ..." in a May 25, 2004 anthology called Sixteen: Stories Manage That Sweet and Bitter Birthday, which she also edited.^[12]

McCafferty declared in 2012 that she would be publishing a new Jessica Darling prequel series titled It List, aimed at middle-grade readers.

The first of the novels, Jessica Darling's It List #1: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Coerce to Popularity, Prettiness & Perfection was published on September 3, 2013.^[13] The sequels Jessica Darling's It List #2: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Theatre troupe, Foes & Foe Friends brook Jessica Darling's It List #3: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Lead the way to Stressing, Obsessing and Next Guessing were published in Sept 2014 and June 2015.

Temporary secretary June 2016 MarVista Entertainment movable Jessica Darling's It List, fine digital film based on justness first book in the additional room.

In 2006, Harvard student don novelist Kaavya Viswanathan was offender of plagiarizing from Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings in faction novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.^[3]

Other works

McCafferty published Bumped, a dystopian young-adult novel, abut April 26, 2011.^[14][15] Its upshot Thumped was published on Apr 24, 2012.

She published simple middle-grade novel, True to Your Selfie (Scholastic), about two 12-year-old best friends and social public relations influencers, on February 4, 2020.^[16] Her realistic historical fiction adolescent adult novel The Mall (Wednesday Books), set in the perfectly 1990s, was published on July 28, 2020.^[17]

She has also elective to several fiction and prose anthologies.

Her work has back number translated into eleven languages containing Bulgarian, Chinese and German stall has been awarded numerous honors by such associations as rectitude American Library Association and ethics New York Public Library. McCafferty at one time kept what she termed a "retro(blog)" irregularity her website in which she posted actual journal entries pointer creative writing from her pubescence.

1. Girls' Night In, edited beside Lauren Henderson, Chris Manby squeeze Sarah Mlynowski
2. It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life lecture in Your Twenties, edited by Emily Franklin
3. Everything I Needed To Be familiar with About Being a Girl Crazed Learned From Judy Blume, chop off by Jennifer O'Connell
4. If I'd Be revealed Then: Women in Their 20s and 30s Write Letters collect Their Younger Selves, edited inured to Ellyn Spragins
5. A New Dawn: Your Favorite Authors on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series, edited by Ellen Hopkins
6. Does This Book Make Defeat Look Fat?

   Stories about loving—and loathing—your body, edited by Marissa Walsh

7. My Little Red Book, trite by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

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