Julianna Baggott

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Also writes under the pen names N.E. Bode and Bridget Asher.

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published fourteen books over the last ten years with five novels slated for publication in the next four years. She began publishing when she was twenty-two and sold her first novel while still in her twenties. There are thirty-one foreign editions of her novels to date.

After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, Girl Talk, which was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and then Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her g...moreAlso writes under the pen names N.E. Bode and Bridget Asher.

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published fourteen books over the last ten years with five novels slated for publication in the next four years. She began publishing when she was twenty-two and sold her first novel while still in her twenties. There are thirty-one foreign editions of her novels to date.

After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, Girl Talk, which was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and then Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reveiws) optioned by Richard Brown with Natalie Portman attached to star.

She also writes bestselling novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode as well as under Julianna Baggott. The Anybodies trilogy was a People Magazine pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girl's Life Top Ten, and a Booksense selection; The Slippery Map (fall 2007), and the prequel to Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007), a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. Bode is a recurring personality on XM Sirius Radio.

Baggott also has a highly acclaimed career as a poet, having published three collections of poetry and having been published in the best literary publications in the country, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry.

Baggott's work has appeared in over a hundred publications, including the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Glamour, Ms., Real Simple, and read on NPR's Here and Now and Talk of the Nation. Her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized.

She lives in Florida with her husband writer David G.W. Scott and their four kids, and is the assistant director of Florida State University's Creative Writing Program.

Along with her husband, Baggott co-founded the nonprofit organization Kids in Need - Books in Deed, that focuses on literacy and getting free books to underprivileged children in the state of Florida.

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Kindness, Hunger Games, Hall and Oates, Lemon Gingers. The blog tour continues...

On the Quest for Kindness Blog, I have an essay on whether Kindness can endure the apocalypse.

"Pure, by Julianna Baggott, makes The Hunger Games look like a garden party." -- on Self.com, today. Well, that was unexpected and wild and I'm humbled by it and love it all at once. Here's the full piece in which there's a photo that shows off my large forehead and a confession from me about, w... read more »

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Books by Julianna Baggott

Average rating: 3.75 · 3,420 ratings · 775 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Pure (Pure, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Girl Talk 2.94 avg rating — 214 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Prince of Fenway Park 3.64 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Miss America Family : A Novel 2.99 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Ever Breath 3.83 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Madam 3.12 avg rating — 50 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women's Voices by Julianna Baggott, Jon Tribble (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	This Country of Mothers 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees: Poems 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Fuse (Pure, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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“Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.”
― Julianna Baggott, Girl Talk

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“Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.”
― Julianna Baggott, Girl Talk

tags: love

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“And I knew that I loved him with more than a nod. I loved him with a rush of tenderness, a lion's share. (Is that ever enough?)
I wanted to survive. I had to. I never called.”
― Julianna Baggott, Which Brings Me to You

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