Author Profile: Daniella Brodsky
Author Name: Daniella Brodsky
Website: http://www.daniellabrodsky.com/index.htm
Bio: Daniella Brodsky was born in Queens, New York, in the town of Little Neck. She now lives in Australia, in the capital city of Canberra.
In between, Brodsky’s lived in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Long Island, Las Vegas, London, Connecticut, and Washington DC. She earned a BA from New York University in Greenwich Village, where creative writing instructors first hinted she may actually have something there. She was unconvinced, but kept being drawn back. Mere blocks away, it was in 2000 that she officially told that doubting voice to shove it when her first novel, DIARY OF A WORKING GIRL was published. DIARY OF A WORKING GIRL has been adapted by Disney for the feature film BEAUTY AND THE BRIEFCASE, starring Hilary Duff, debuting on ABC Family Network April 18, 2010.
Daniella Brodsky’s subsequent novels are THE VELVET ROPE DIARIES, and PRINCESS OF PARK AVENUE (all originally published by Penguin). It was with the release of her fourth novel, FEAR OF DRIVING, that Brodsky explored new geographical territory and understood how powerful place can be in a story. When she left New York City for rural Connecticut several years ago, it was such a fertile time for her imagination—driving, seeing how pumpkins grow on vines, not in a box at the corner bodega, deciding whether it’s safe to tiptoe past twelve deer on the way to her car.
Her new home in Australia offers novel experiences galore, and she’s discovered travel to be the most nourishing food for a creative mind.
Her first young adult novel, ONE TRICK PONY (Random House), was published in hardcover in 2007. Back when she could stay out past 10:30, Brodsky was also the creator and author of THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO NEW YORK NIGHTLIFE series, as well as a freelance magazine journalist. She has been featured on Good Day New York, The WB Morning News, NPR, and in The New York Times, The New York Post, and The Hartford Courant. Her nonfiction work has been published in leading publications such as Time Out New York, The New York Post, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Shape, and Self. Her next novel, VIVIAN RISING, will be published by Simon & Schuster this August. She continues to be fascinated by what makes us who we are and what we can do about it. Brodsky is working on three new novels and a non-fiction title about writing.
Titles: Never on a Sundae, The Girls Guides to New York Nightlife, Trick Pony, Princess of Park Avenue, Diary of a Working Girl, Velvet Rope Diaries, Fear of Driving, and Vivian Rising.
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