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Jennifer Niven

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Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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Penelope Niven, Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Hemingway,...more

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May 2011

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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 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, Outside, The New York Times Book Review, The London Daily Mail, The London Times, and Writer's Digest, among others. Dateline NBC, the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel have featured The Ice Master and Jennifer in hour-long documentaries, she and the book have appeared frequently on the BBC, and the book has been the subject of numerous German, Canadian, and British television documentaries. The Ice Master has been nominated for awards by the American Library Association and Book Sense, and received Italy's esteemed Gambrinus Giuseppe Mazzotti Prize for 2002.

Jennifer's second book, Ada Blackjack — an inspiring true story of the woman the press called "the female Robinson Crusoe" — was released in November 2003, was a Book Sense Top Ten Pick, has been optioned for the movies, was recently translated into Chinese, French, and Estonian.

Jennifer’s third book and first novel, Velva Jean Learns to Drive (based on the Emmy Award-winning film of the same name), was released July 2009 by Penguin/Plume. Her fourth book, a memoir —The Aqua-Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town — was published in February 2010 by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, and was optioned by Warner Brothers as a television series. Jennifer's fifth book, Velva Jean Learns to Fly, was released by Penguin/Plume in August 2011. Her sixth book, Becoming Clementine, will be published September 25, 2012.

With her mother, author Penelope Niven, Jennifer has conducted numerous seminars in writing and addressed audiences around the world.

When she isn't writing, Jennifer studies belly dancing, yoga, and electric guitar; explores her inner bombshell; hikes the great outdoors; immerses herself in the movies and culture of Hollywood's golden age; rabidly follows her favorite TV shows; comes to the rescue of homeless animals; reads three to four books a week when her cats aren't lying on them; and sees as much of the world as she can.(less)

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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.

A little background: The ARC is sent out to reviewers, bloggers, magazines, newspapers, and librari...

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Books by Jennifer Niven

Average rating: 3.81 · 2,239 ratings · 546 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Velva Jean Learns to Drive 3.85 avg rating — 1,200 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk 4.05 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic 3.72 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Velva Jean Learns to Fly: A Novel 4.12 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town 2.84 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Becoming Clementine: A Novel 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Becoming Clementine by Jennifer Niven (Goodreads Author), TBA (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Becoming Clementine by Jennifer Niven (Goodreads Author), TBA (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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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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Jennifer Niven added a quote "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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Jennifer Niven made a comment on Velva Jean speaks!: "I think so too! So glad you agree. :) "
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Jennifer Niven liked Neill Caldwell's review of The Ice Master: " 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. "
Oct 14, 2011 08:34am · see review
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Oct 07, 2011 05:50pm
Jennifer Niven liked Melee's review of Velva Jean Learns to Fly: " 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... " Read more of this review »
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Last Wish by Betty Rollin

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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston and Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin

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Ada BlackJack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven and The Call of the Wild by Jack London

6 votes, 13.6%

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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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