Alex Flinn
| Alex Flinn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 23, 1966 Glen Cove, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Miami |
| Period | 2001–present |
| Genre | Fantasy, Romance, Fiction |
| Spouse | Eugene Flinn |
| Children | Katherine Flinn Meredith Flinn |
Alexandra Flinn (born October 23, 1966) is an American writer of novels for young adults. To date, she has written eleven books and one original e-book, that have been published with another due in 2017. Her books have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists and have been translated into over twenty foreign languages.
Flinn was born in Long Island, New York and grew up in Syosset, New York and Miami, Florida. At the age of five she started thinking about being a writer and submitted early efforts to magazines like Highlights, which did not publish them. At twelve, she moved to Palmetto Bay, Florida, a suburb of Miami, where she still lives. She had a hard time making friends at her new school, and she has said that this experience inspired much of her writing for young adults, particularly her book, Breaking Point. She graduated from Miami-Palmetto High School and was in a magnet performing arts program called PAVAC (Performing And Visual Arts Center), which inspired some of her book, Diva. She graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in vocal performance (opera) then went to law school at Nova Southeastern University and practiced law for 10 years before quitting her day job to devote herself full-time to writing, following the acceptance of her third book.
She is married to Eugene Flinn and has two daughters, Katherine and Meredith.
Breathing Underwater was Flinn's first novel. It was originally published in 2001 and was chosen a Top 10 ALA Best Books for Young Adults for that year. The story of 16-year-old Nicholas Andreas, a wealthy Miami teen who is sent to anger management because his girlfriend, Caitlin, takes out a restraining order against him. Ordered by the judge to write about his relationship, Nick tells of falling in love with her, and the eventual time when his anger took over and he hit her. The book is set in Miami and Key West, Florida. An excerpt from the book was included in Liz Claiborne, Inc's Love is Not Abuse curriculum, which was formulated to teach students about dating violence. Diva, a sequel to Breathing Underwater was released in 2006. It tells the story of Caitlin attending performing arts school as she gets over what happened between her and Nick and learns to be her own person while bonding with her often-flighty mother.
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