Jeanne DuPrau
{{short description|American novelist}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Jeanne DuPrau
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|06 |09}}
| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| occupation = Novelist
| notableworks = The Books of Ember
| website = {{URL|http://www.jeanneduprau.com}}
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Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of science fiction novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.{{cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/7639/jeanne-duprau |title=Jeanne DuPrau}}
Works
= The Books of Ember =
- The City of Ember (2003){{cite web |url=http://www.nss.org/resources/books/children/CB_020_cityofember.html |website=www.nss.org |title=Book Review: The City of Ember |author=Marianne Dyson |publisher=National Space Agency |access-date=October 4, 2015 |archive-date=December 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210143052/http://nss.org/resources/books/children/CB_020_cityofember.html |url-status=dead }}
- The People of Sparks (2004){{cite web |url=http://www.swanhillslibrary.ab.ca/content/people-sparks-jeanne-duprau |website=www.swanhillslibrary.ab.ca |title=The People of Sparks, by Jeanne DuPrau |publisher=Swan Hills Municipal Library |access-date=October 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006033823/http://www.swanhillslibrary.ab.ca/content/people-sparks-jeanne-duprau |archive-date=October 6, 2015 |url-status=dead }}
- The Prophet of Yonwood (2006)
- The Diamond of Darkhold (2008)
= Other fiction =
- Car Trouble (2005){{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jeanne-duprau/car-trouble/ |website=www.kirkusreviews.com |title=Car Trouble |date=July 1, 2005 |publisher=Kirkus Media LLC |access-date=October 4, 2015 }}
- Voyagers: Escape the Vortex (2016)
- Project F (2023)
=Nonfiction=
- The Earth House
- Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage
- Cells
- Cloning
- Daily Life in the American Colonies
=Short stories=
- "Pearl's Fateful Wish" included in the young adult short story collection What You Wish For, published September 2011.
Film adaptations
{{main|City of Ember}}
A film adaptation of The City of Ember, called City of Ember, was released in October 2008. It was filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland and stars Bill Murray as the Mayor of Ember, Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins and Martin Landau.{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970411/|title=City of Ember (2008)|website=IMDb }}
References
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External links
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:People from Menlo Park, California
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American children's writers
Category:American women novelists
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Writers of young adult science fiction