James Frey
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| Born | James Christopher Frey September 12, 1969 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
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| Nationality | American |
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James Christopher Frey (born September 12, 1969) is an American writer and the founder and CEO of Full Fathom Five, a transmedia production company responsible for the young adult series "The Lorien Legacies", the first book of which, I Am Number Four (2010), was made into a feature film by DreamWorks Studios.
His two first books, A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005), were marketed as memoirs, but large parts of the stories were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated. His 2008 novel Bright Shiny Morning was also a bestseller.
Frey wrote the screenplays to the films Kissing a Fool and Sugar: The Fall of the West the latter of which he directed as well. Both were produced in 1998.
Doubleday published A Million Little Pieces in April 2003, and Amazon.com editors selected it as their favorite book of that year.
In 2004, Frey wrote My Friend Leonard, which continued where A Million Little Pieces left off, and centered on the father-son relationship which Frey and his friend Leonard, from Hazelden, shared. My Friend Leonard was published in June 2005 by Riverhead, and became a bestseller.
In late 2007, Frey signed a new three-book, seven-figure deal with Harper Collins to release his novel, Bright Shiny Morning, which was published May 13, 2008.Bright Shiny Morning appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and has received mixed reviews. The New York Times's Janet Maslin, who had previously been one of Frey's detractors, gave the book a rave review.The New Yorker review described the novel as "banal". The book also received highly polarized reviews by the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian. The first epigraph states: "Nothing in this book should be considered accurate or reliable."
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