People like Julianna Baggott

Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is a novelist, essayist and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's Creative Writing Program.

Baggott has published eighteen books over the last twelve years. Her most recent novel Pure the first in a dystopian trilogy, was published by Grand Central Publishing; film rights have been acquired by Fox 2000. The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, published under pen name Asher, was published in spring of 2011. To date, there approximately fifty foreign editions of her novels.

Baggott began publishing when she was twenty-two. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, Girl Talk, while she was still in her twenties. Girl Talk was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and then Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, a historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews) optioned by producer Richard Brown and adapted by Keith Bunin.