(DLA Las Piñas HS LRC) March Author of the Month - Rainbow Rowell

Tomorrow is International Women's Day so we're featuring someone who can totally represent girl power! Rainbow Rowell is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her books have ed a great deal of critical acclaim in 2013. She currently lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons. Rainbow is fond of reading comic books and planning Disney World trips when she's not writing.

Rowell was a columnist and a copywriter at the Omaha World-Herald from 1995 to 2012. Her first published novel was Attachments in 2011. In 2013, she published two young adult novels that were named by The New York Times as among the best young adult fiction of the year.

Eleanor & Park was also chosen by Amazon as one of the 10 best books of 2013 and as Goodreads' best young adult fiction of the year. Rainbow completed the first draft of Fangirl for National Novel Writing Month in 2011, it was chosen as the inaugural selection for Tumblr's reblog book club.

Her work gained some attention in 2013 when a parents' group at a Minnesota high school challenged Eleanor & Park resulting to Rowell being disinvited to a library event however, a panel ultimately determined that the book could stay on library shelves. She noted in an interview that the material that these parents were calling "profane" was what many kids in difficult situations realistically had to deal with, and that "when these people call Eleanor & Park an obscene story, I feel like they’re saying that rising above your situation isn’t possible."

Rowell's fourth book, Landline, a contemporary adult novel about a marriage in trouble was released on July 8, 2014. In the same year, talks of DreamWorks planning a movie based on Eleanor & Park was released, for which Rainbow has been asked to write the screenplay. She announced in December 2014 that her fifth book, Carry On, based on the book series central to the plot of Fangirl, will be published in October 2015.