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How to pronounce E Lockhart: lockart (Lockhart is Emily Jenkins' middle name - and she likes it so much she uses it on her books)
Emily Jenkins, who also writes under the name E. Lockhart, is a writer of children's picture books, young adult novels, and adult fiction. She grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Seattle, Washington. In high school she attended summer drama schools at Northwestern University and the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. She attended Lakeside School, a private high school in North Seattle. She went to Vassar College and graduate school at Columbia University. She has a doctorate in English literature. She currently lives in the New York City area.
Jenkins/Lochart is the author of We Were Liars, Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the Ruby Oliver quartet: The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends. How to Be Bad was co-written with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski.
Disreputable History was a Printz Award honor book, a finalist for the National Book Award, and recipient of the Cybils Award for best young adult novel.
In the Q&A at her website she explains that the E. stands for Emily. She uses it on her teen books "because I write other kinds of books using my whole, legal name. My dad calls me E., and I always liked it."
E Lockhart's website
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Are you a prankster? Could you have pulled off Frankie's pranks?
I am not and have never been much of a prankster, though in college I was a big
sneaker-arounder. (That is not a word, I know, but The Disreputable History
is partly a book about making up words, so I'm using it anyway. It's my
prerogative as an author.)
Okay, back to college. My friends and I snuck into the chapel late at night, got
on the roof of the film center (for romance) and the dance studio (for
tanning)—and yes, we had parties on the golf course. There was a fair amount of
streaking as well! But we weren't engaging in social or institutional critique
in any systematic way, the way Frankie is. To write Frankie's pranks I had to do
some significant research and really push my imagination.
Did you, like Frankie, struggle with other people's assumptions about your
skills or abilities?
I certainly did as a teenager and young adult. I think a big part of why I
got a doctorate in English literature was that I wanted concrete evidence of my
intellectual worth. I often felt that neither my boyfriends nor my professors
really saw me as serious, and that my boyfriends didn't see me as equal.
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