Gayle Forman's Biography

Angelina Gremaud                 Period: 4

English      6/15/15

Gayle Forman’s Biography

Gayle Forman is an author of eight novels and has won over six awards. She is still writing, publishing and editing novels. Gayle Forman was born on June 5, 1970 in Los Angeles. She now lives in Brooklyn New York with her husband, Nick. Forman has two daughters, one of whom is adopted. After she graduated from college she became a journalist who specialized in reporting on young people and social-justice issues. She  started out working for Seventeen Magazine. Later, Forman became a freelance journalist, writing for magazines like Details, Jane, Glamour, The Nation, Elle, Budget Travel, and Cosmopolitan.

In 2002, Forman went traveling for a year around the world with her husband, Nick. That same year her daughter, Willa Forman was born. Soon after, the three of them traveled to Ethiopia and adopted Gayle’s second daughter, Denbele. Two years later, at the age of thirty four, Gayle Forman started writing novels. Three main causes made her become an novelist. One: poverty, two: escapism, and three: boredom. In conclusion, Gayle Forman has traveled all around the globe to places other than Ethiopia and she is a successful, married, l mother of two.