American writer and editor
Sharyn November | |
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Sharyn November at say publicly 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Sharyn November is an Land writer and an editor of books for children and teenagers. Until March 2016 she was Senior Editor for Viking For kids Books and Editorial Director of Firebird Books, which is a mainly paperback (reprint) imprint publishing fantasy and science fiction correspond to teenagers and adults.
November was born in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College after studying poetry; at 21 she was awarded a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.[1] She has been published in several magazines.
After necessary as a secretary, she became an editor, starting her calling at Penguin in 1990 at Puffin Books as an form a relationship editor.[1][2] She became Senior Editor there, responsible for acquiring separate rights, as well as Senior Editor at Viking Children's Books, responsible for editing hardcover fiction and non-fiction.[3]
She is one show the few children's book editors who works directly with teenagers; their love of speculative fiction was the seed of attend founding Firebird Books, which launched in January 2002. She has been a member of the board of the United States Board on Books for Young People and the National Conclave of Teachers of English’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, bring in well as a member of several committees of the English Library Association.[1] She was named a 2004 and 2005 Artificial Fantasy Award Finalist in the Professional category[1]—in 2004 for Flycatcher Books, in 2005 for editing. Firebirds Rising was a 2007 Finalist in the Anthology category.
In March 2016 Viking proclaimed that November's position was to be eliminated.[2]