Townsend, Jessica, 1985-

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Name (Hebrew)
טאונסנד, ג'סיקה, 1985-
Name (Latin)
Townsend, Jessica, 1985-
Other forms of name
Townsend, Jessica Mary, 1985-
Date of birth
1985-04-18
Associated country
Australia
Place of residence/headquarters
Queensland
Other associated place
London (England)
Field of activity
Authorship
Children's stories
Advertising copy
Editing
Occupation
Authors
Copy writers
Editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q61055227
Library of congress: n 2017041088
OCoLC: oca10893642
Sources of Information
  • The trials of Morrigan Crow, 2017:ECIP t.p. (Jessica Townsend)
  • Email to pub. 07-12-17(per pub. Jessica Mary Townsend; DOB April 18, 1985)
  • The trials of Morrigan Crow, 2017:back flap (Jessica Townsend lives on the Sunshine Coast in Australia, but has dipped in and out of London life over the past decade, tucking the best and strangest parts of the city into the corners of her brain for future fictional use. She was previously a copywriter and the editor of a children's wildlife magazine for Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo. The Trials of Morrigan Crow is her first novel)
  • נוורמור, 2019:דף שער (ג'סיקה טאונסנד)

Wikipedia description:

Jessica Townsend (born 18 April 1985 in Caloundra, Queensland) is an Australian author known for the children's fantasy novel series, The Nevermoor series. Her debut novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow won the Book of the Year Award at the Australian Book Industry Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature. At the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Nevermoor won both the Premier's Award for best overall published work and the Children's Award. It also won the 2018 Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Younger Fiction. Film rights to Nevermoor were sold to 20th Century Fox in 2016. Screenwriter Drew Goddard has been selected to adapt the screenplay.

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