Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of science fiction novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.[1]

Jeanne DuPrau
Born (1944-06-09) June 9, 1944
San Francisco, California
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksThe Books of Ember
Website
www.jeanneduprau.com

Works

The Books of Ember

Other Fiction
  • Car Trouble (2005)[4]
  • Voyagers: Escape the Vortex (2016)

Nonfiction
  • The Earth House
  • Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage
  • Cells
  • Cloning
  • Daily Life in the American Colonies

Short stories
  • "Pearl's Fateful Wish" included in the young adult short story collection What You Wish For, published September 2011.

Film adaptations
Main article: City of Ember

A film adaptation of The City of Ember, called City of Ember, was released in October 2008. It was filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland and stars Bill Murray as the Mayor of Ember, Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins and Martin Landau.

gollark: Oh wait.
gollark: But we discuss esolangs all the time!
gollark: Some bees aren't even differentiable.
gollark: You have to manage spontaneous tetrational apiogenesis, the Pauli exclusion principle (some bees are fermions), apioidal numerical effects causing increased downtime for some numbers, apiolectromagnetic field turbulence, and undocumented legacy code.
gollark: Apiary management is *not trivial* though!

References
  1. "Jeanne DuPrau".
  2. Marianne Dyson. "Book Review: The City of Ember". www.nss.org. National Space Agency. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. "The People of Sparks, by Jeanne DuPrau". www.swanhillslibrary.ab.ca. Swan Hills Municipal Library. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  4. "Car Trouble". www.kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Media LLC. 1 July 2005. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
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