That year she also published her first novel. Her first book was published by Atheneum in 2002: Humble Pie, a picture book with the veteran illustrator Stephen Gammell. Career ĭonnelly returned to New York at age 25, moving to Brooklyn. She also attended Birkbeck College, University of London, in England. ĭonnelly attended the University of Rochester, where she earned a degree in English Literature in 1985. Donnelly's own childhood was divided between the communities of Rye and Port Leyden, New York. Her paternal great-grandparents immigrated from Dublin, Ireland to New York state and settled in the Adirondack region where her grandmother worked at a hotel on Big Moose Lake, the setting for A Northern Light. Early life ĭonnelly was born in Port Chester, New York. Similarly, it was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time in 2015. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal a few years later, it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favorite. There, it won the 2003 Carnegie Medal, recognizing the year's outstanding children's book. Led only by her shadowy dreams and pursued by the invading army, Serafina and her best friend Neela embark on a quest to avenge her parents' death and prevent a war between the mer nations.Jennifer Donnelly (born August 16, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction best known for the historical novel A Northern Light.Ī Northern Light was published as A Gathering Light in the U.K.

Instead she finds herself haunted by strange dreams foretelling the return of an ancient evil, and dealing with the deaths of her parents as assassins storm the betrothal ceremony, plunging the city into chaos. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be about reuniting with handsome Prince Mahdi, her childhood crush.

In the process they discover a plot that threatens their - and our - world's very existence Led only by her shadowy dreams and pursued by the invading army, Serafina and her best friend Neela embark on a quest to avenge her parents' death and prevent a war between the mer nations.

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