Jeanne Ryan

Novelist

Birthplace United States

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About

American author who has gained fame for her young adult fiction. In 2012, her novel Nerve was published and became a New York Times Bestseller. She followed up in 2015 with Charisma.

Before Fame

She started writing her first young adult novel in 2006.

Trivia

Nerve was reviewed favorably by the A.V. Club. The novel has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish, among other languages.

Family Life

She has 11 siblings. She grew up in Hawaii, South Korea, Michigan, and Germany.

Associated With

The 2016 techno-thriller adventure film Nerve, starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, was based on her novel of the same name.