Leave Me (Forman)

Author Bio
• Birth—June 5, 1970
• Where—Los Angeles, California, USA
• Education—N/A
• Awards—British Fantasy Award
• Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York


Gayle Forman is a journalist, as well as an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author whose many young adult novels include I Was Here, Just One Day, and If I Stay, which became a motion picture. She made her foray into adult literature with her 2016 novel, Leave Me. Forman lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

Forman began her career with Seventeen magazine, writing articles primarily focusing on young people and social concerns. Later she did freelance writing for Details Magazine, Jane Magazine, Glamour, The Nation, Elle and Cosmopolitan.

In 2002, she and her husband Nick traveled around the world, which allowed her to gather ideas and information. She drew on her travel experiences to publish her first book in 2005, a travelogue—You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On The Fringes Of A Shrinking World. Two years later, in 2007, Forman published her first young adult novel Sisters in Sanity, which she based on an article she had written for Seventeen.

All told, Forman has written seven novels for young adult, plus her 2016 novel for adults, Leave Me. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/14/2016.)