Caroline Leavitt is an American novelist. She is the ''New York Times'' bestselling author of ''Is This Tomorrow'' and ''Pictures of You'', as well as 8 other novels, including ''Cruel Beautiful World'' and ''With or Without You..''
Leavitt is the recipient of a
New York Foundation for the Arts
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Award in Fiction, and a Goldenberg Fiction Prize. She was also a
National Magazine Award
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Nominee in Personal Essay, a finalist in the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Awards, and a finalist in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. A book critic for ''
The Boston Globe
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'', The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and ''
People
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'', she has also published in ''
New York Magazine
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'', ''
Psychology Today
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'', ''More'', ''
Redbook
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'', ''
Parenting
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'', and more. ''Cruel Beautiful World'' was named one of the Best Books of the Year by BlogCritics and by The Pulpwood Queens. ''Pictures of You'' was named one of the Best Books of the year by the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', ''The Providence Journal'', ''Bookmarks'', and one of the top five books by ''Kirkus Reviews''. ''Is This Tomorrow'' was named one of the Best Books of the Year by ''January'' magazine, and was long-listed for the Maine Prize, as well as being a Jewish Book Council BookClub Pick. She lives in
Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,690 i ...
with the music journalist and author
Jeff Tamarkin
Jeff Tamarkin is an American editor, author and historian specializing in music and popular culture.
Career
For 15 years Tamarkin was editor of '' Goldmine'', a magazine for record and CD collectors. Prior to that, he served as the first editor ...
and has a grown actor/writer son.
Bibliography
* ''With or Without You''
* ''Cruel Beautiful World''
* ''Is This Tomorrow''
* ''Pictures of You''
* ''Girls In Trouble''
* ''Coming Back To Me''
* ''
Living Other Lives''
* ''Into Thin Air''
* ''Family''
* ''Jealousies''
* ''Lifelines''
* ''Meeting Rozzy Halfway''
* ''The Wrong Sister''
References
External links
Author's website
Living people
People from Waltham, Massachusetts
Writers from Hoboken, New Jersey
Novelists from Massachusetts
American women novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
Novelists from New Jersey
Year of birth missing (living people)
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