Jessica Brody
American author of young adult fiction
Jessica Brody is an American author and writing teacher. Her writing consists mainly of young adult fiction.
Early life
Brody graduated from Smith College in 2001 with a double major in economics and French and worked for MGM Studios until 2005, when she quit to pursue becoming a full-time author. She credits Bridget Jones's Diary with reigniting her childhood passion for writing. Brody sold her first novel a year and a half after quitting MGM.
Books
While most of Brody's books are for teens, her first two published novels, The Fidelity Files and Love Under Cover, were women's fiction for adults. The first novel she wrote after leaving MGM was never published; after three years of submitting the completed manuscript to different agents, Brody started a new novel. She was signed by an agent for her second novel, five years after starting her career as an author. The agent sold that novel in ten days.
Brody published her first young adult novel, The Karma Club, in April 2010. She is known for her Unremembered and Disney Descendants: School of Secrets series of young adult fiction novels.
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