Maureen Johnson
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February 16, 1973 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Period | 2004–present |
| Genre | Young adult fiction, |
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Maureen Johnson (born February 16, 1973, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author of young adult fiction. She has published ten young adult novels to date, including the Shades of London series and the Suite Scarlett series.
Maureen Johnson is a graduate of the University of Delaware. Prior to that she attended an all-girl Catholic preparatory high school. In the short period between her undergraduate and graduate careers, Johnson worked in Philadelphia, London, and New York City. She was the literary manager of a Philadelphia theater company, a waitress in a theme restaurant, a secretary, a bartender in Piccadilly, and an occasional performer. She studied both writing and theatrical dramaturgy at Columbia University, where she received her MFA in Writing.
Maureen Johnson's first novel, The Key to the Golden Firebird, was published in 2004. It was followed by The Bermudez Triangle and 13 Little Blue Envelopes in 2005, Devilish in 2006, and Girl at Sea in 2007.
In June 2007, Johnson's book The Bermudez Triangle was challenged by the parent of a student in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Johnson responded on her website by calling for greater transparency in the school system's challenge process. To resolve the controversy, the school board did not remove the book but placed it in a restricted area of the high school's library.
Suite Scarlett, the first book in the Suite Scarlett series, was published by Scholastic in May 2008. The second book, Scarlett Fever, was released on February 1, 2010. On November 27, 2009, Johnson became a New York Times Best Selling author when Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances, a book that she co-wrote with John Green and Lauren Myracle in 2008, reached number ten on the Children's Paperback list.
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