E. R. Frank is an American fiction writer, clinical

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. She writes young adult or teen fiction, and middle-grade fiction. ''Frank'' won the Teen People Book Club NEXT Award for her first novel ''Life Is Funny'', which was published by DK Ink in 2000. Her 2003 novel ''America'' was made into a 2009 television movie starring Rosie O'Donnell and Philip Johnson. Frank is the granddaughter of

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, a best-selling American biographer and ghostwriter. She graduated from Vassar College in 1990. As a therapist, Frank specializes in adults and adolescents who have undergone

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. According to a 2004 interview for Vassar's alumni publication, she "uses books, and discussion of literary characters" in her practice. She also told the interviewer, "Writing is therapeutic for me. It's how I process my experiences as a social worker." Her book ''America'' was removed from public school libraries in

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Books

* ''Life Is Funny'' ( DK Ink, 2000) * ''America'' ( Atheneum Books, 2002) * ''Friction'' (Atheneum, 2003) – middle-grade fiction * ''Wrecked'' (Atheneum, 2007) * ''Dime'' (2015)

Awards

* Teen People Book Club NEXT Award, ''Life Is Funny''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frank, E.R 1969 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American young adult novelists American social workers Date of birth missing (living people) American women novelists American women writers of young adult literature Vassar College alumni American children's writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers