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Sarah Dessen
American novelist (born 1970)
Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Born in Illinois, Dessen graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996. She has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work.
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Two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal.
Early life, education and personal life
Dessen was born in Evanston, Illinois, on June 6, 1970, to Alan and Cynthia Dessen, who were both professors at the University of North Carolina, teaching Shakespearean literature and classics.[1]
As a teenager, Dessen was very shy and quiet.
She became involved with a 21-year-old when she was 15 but cut all contact with him shortly after. In a piece penned for Seventeen, Dessen wrote "for many years afterward, I took total blame for everything