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Jennifer Niven lives in Los Angeles (where her film Velva Jean Learns to Drive won an Emmy Award and she once played the part of Shania Twain in a music video). Even though she's always wanted to be a Charlie's Angel, her true passion is writing, and her first book, The Ice Master, was released in November 2000 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer, Jennifer has ten different publishers in ten separate countries, and the book has been translated into eight languages, including German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Danish, and Icelandic.

Jennifer and The Ice Master have appeared in Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, Talk, Glamour, The New Yorker,...more


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One of the strangest times in a writer’s life is when the ARCs go out into the world to seek early praise and attention. The “ARC” is book world shorthand for “Advance Reading Copy,” which translates to: an unedited, unfinished version of a book. Which translates to: one of my worst nightmares.


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Average rating: 3.81 · 2,239 ratings · 546 reviews · 9 distinct works
Velva Jean Learns to Drive
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,200 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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The Ice Master: The Doomed ...
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
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Ada BlackJack: A True Story...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
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Velva Jean Learns to Fly: A...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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2.84 of 5 stars 2.84 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Becoming Clementine: A Novel
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January 2010, Jennifer Niven
" General Questions SS: What is your birthdate? JN: 5/14 SS: What were your previous occupations? JN: Actress; assistant bookstore manager (Harvard-Westlake); writer, editor, celebrity interviewer (House of Blues); website producer (abc.com) SS: What wa..." ...More

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"To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth."Lionel Barrymore
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" Excellently told tale of an incredible story. Amazing detail for something that happened 100 years ago. Jennifer is a very talented young writer and I look forward into reading all of her books. "
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Velva Jean Learns to Fly by Jennifer Niven
" Velva Jean Learns to Drive was alright, but I loved Velva Jean Learns to Fly! This is historical fiction at its most enjoyable; the setting and characters were extremely well-rendered and I found it a compelling read. What I thought was most inter... "
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“To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.”
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