Nicola Yoon Biography
Nicola Yoon is a known Jamaican-American Author known as the author of 2015 young adult novel ‘Everything, Everything’, a New York Times bestseller book, which is the basis of a 2017 film ‘Everything, Everything’. She as well wrote ‘The Sun Is Also a Star’, a novel that was adapted to a film in 2016.
Nicola Yoon Age
Yoon was born on 1st , October , 1972, in Jamaica.
Nicola Yoon Career
Yoon debut novel, Everything, Everything, was inspired by the birth of her biracial daughter. She wanted to write a book that reflected her child on the pages. Yoon’s first-time mother worries about protecting her baby from danger gave her the idea to write a story about a 17-year-old girl who needed the same level of protection.
The book was edited within three years time ,full time working in morning hours,same tim nursing her baby .The illustrations were drawn by her Korean American graphic designer David Yoon. The book was s released in September 2015 and debuted as No. 1 New York Times bestseller for young adult hardcover books. It spent 40 weeks on the bestseller list.
A film of the same name based on the book, adapted by J. Mills Goodloe and starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson, was released in May 2017.
Nicola Yoon The Sun Is Also a Star
In November 2016, Yoon wrote a second book, The Sun Is Also a Star, was released. This one too topped the New York Times Best Seller list. The book was a 2016 National Book Award finalist. It was included in The New York Times Book Review list of Notable Children’s Books of 2016.
It was also listed in the top 10 books of 2016 by Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. The Sun Is Also a Star is Nicola’s book. The book is about a girl, Natasha, who believes in science and facts and has no time to fall in love and a young man, Joseph, who has always been a good son and student who lived up to his parents’ high expectations.
Daniel later falls in love with Natasha. In November 2016, The Sun Is Also a Star, was released. The book reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. The book was a 2016 National Book Award finalist. It was included in The New York Times Book Review list of Notable Children’s Books of 2016.
It was also listed in the top 10 books of 2016 by Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. In 2017, The Sun Is Also A Star was honored as a finalist of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. In December 2016, it was announced that film rights to the book had been acquired by Warner Brothers and MGM. The movie was released on May 17, 2019.
Nicola Yoon Books
- Everything, Everything
- The Sun Is Also a Star
- Instructions for Dancing
- Blackout Lib/E
- Meet Cute: Collected Stories
Nicola Yoon Net Worth
Yoon has an estimated net worth of between 1 million USD to 5 million USD .
Nicola Yoon Family
Nicola was born in Jamaica and raised by her parents in Brooklyn. Family background is not clearly known . This section shall be updated once the information is available.
Nicola Yoon Husband
Yoon has aloving husband, David Yoon, a Korean-American graphic designer. They are blessed with a beautiful daughter, currently residing in Los Angeles, California .
Nicola Yoon Daughter Name
Nicola and David has personalized their daughters name . This section will be updated as soon as the information is available.
Nicola Yoon Height and Weight
Nicola is tall at an average height and has an average body weight
Nicola Yoon Education
Yoon attended Cornell University where she pursued an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. She was taking a creative writing class as an elective got her “hooked on writing” ,later enrolled at the Master of Creative Writing program at Emerson College.
Nicola Yoon Quotes
- “Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”
- “Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
- “Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
- “Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”
- “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”
- “You’re not living if you’re not regretting.”
- “I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.”