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Hayley Anne Perkins
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http://www.goodreads.com/haperkins
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| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
The United States |
| website |
http://www.hayleyanneperkins.com |
| genre |
Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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| influences |
J.K. Rowling, Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Meg Cabot, Dian Curtis Regan, Debbie Dadey & Marcia Thornton Jones, Kathleen Duey & K.A. Bale, Carolyn Mackler, Kay Thompson |
about this author
In 1912, at 2:20 AM on April 15, the RMS Titanic sank in the waters off the coast of Nova Scotia. Exactly seventy-five years later, Hayley Anne Perkins was born in the suburbs of Chicago. She shares her birthday with Leonardo da Vinci, Catherine I, and Emma Thompson; however, this is usually overshadowed by the fact that it’s Tax Day and no one really feels like celebrating. Fortunately, her notorious birthday gifted Hayley with a lifelong interest in history, destiny, and famous figures (although not taxes).
Hayley graduated from Knox College (Galesburg, IL) in just under three years and majored in 20th Century History with minors in both Creative Writing and Journalism.
As a college student, Hayley had the honor of working as an intern on Ken Burns’ WWII documentary The War, where she helped to collect and transcribe fascinating interviews with veterans from all theaters of combat, including a former Nazi soldier now living in a Midwestern nursing home. She also wrote a bi-weekly column for her college newspaper for one year of her scholastic tenure before jetting off to New York City .
In New York, Hayley (under another name) published articles and narratives for The Hollywood Reporter, Pop Matters, The One Love, and entertainment collective Tommy2.net. In writing for The Hollywood Reporter, she had the opportunity to interview both Elmo – the Sesame Street muppet – and Mayor Bloomberg simultaneously, and counts this as one of the most bizarre experiences of her life.
Most importantly, it was during her time in New York City that Hayley managed to complete the initial drafts of her stubborn character’s tale: Green, which is the first in her forthcoming quartet of contemporary paranormal YA novels, The Metempsyche Novels. She is in the early stages of publication for the series, but early readers have compared her writing style to J.K. Rowling, Jane Austen, S.E. Hinton, and Meg Cabot, with “beautifully lush imagery,” “an amazingly original storyline,” and “hilarious witty humor.”
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