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E. Lockhart is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Liars and its prequel, Family of Liars. Other novels: Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, Again Again, Genuine Fraud, 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 and a finalist for the National Book Award. We Were Liars won the Goodreads Choice Award and was Amazon's #1 YA novel of 2014. Genuine Fraud is a Times bestseller and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize.
Lockhart has a doctorate in English literature from Columbia University. Her field was 19th-century British novels. In 2013, she chaired the committee on Young People's Literature for the National Book Awards.
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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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