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American writer

Katie Coyle (born c. 1986) is an American writer. She is the author of the Vivian Apple series of young adult (YA) novels.[1]

Early life[edit]

Coyle grew up in Fair Haven, New Jersey, graduating in 2004 from Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School.[2] She attended Marymount Manhattan College, majoring in English, then earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh.[2]

Vivian Apple series[edit]

Coyle’s Vivian Apple books follow the 16-year-old protagonist as she remains on earth after an apparent rapture in which thousands of adults disappear, including her parents.[3] The first Vivian Apple book was published in the UK in 2013 by Hot Key Books as Vivian Versus the Apocalypse. Coyle began writing the novel while in graduate school; she first developed the character in a short story for her MFA program.[4] Coyle learned of the Young Writer’s Prize, sponsored by Hot Key and The Guardian,[5] for an unrepresented author under 25 and entered the competition in 2012 primarily as incentive to make progress on her draft; ultimately she won the prize,[6] a publishing deal worth 10,000 British pounds.[5] In 2014, Rolling Stone named Vivian Versus the Apocalypse to a list of the 40 “most essential” books of the YA genre[7] and the novel was republished in the US by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2014 under the title Vivian Apple at the End of the World.[8][9] A sequel followed in 2015, also with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, entitled Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle.[10][11]Cosmopolitan named Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle to a 2015 list of “24 New Books Every Twentysomething Woman Needs to Read This Fall”.[12]

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Other projects[edit]

In 2015, Coyle’s story “Fear Itself”, originally written in graduate school and published in One Story,[4] was collected in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology.[13] The story was also awarded a 2016 Pushcart Prize.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Seltzer, Sarah (16 January 2015). ““All My Favorite Media Is About Teen Girls”: ‘Vivian Apple’ Author Katie Coyle on Tumblr Feminism and YA Lit”. Flavorwire. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b AH Arts Council (11 January 2015). “Katie Coyle, Author of the Novel Vivian Apple at the End of the World”. Atlantic Highlands Herald. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  3. ^ Mason, Everdeen (8 July 2016). “A teen book without a love triangle can exist after all”. Washington Post. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  4. ^ a b Celt, Adrienne (November 21, 2014). “An Interview with Katie Coyle, Author of Vivian Apple at the End of the World”. The Toast. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  5. ^ a b Van Develde, Elaine (2013-08-26). “RFH Grad Katie Coyle Gets Published”. Rumson-Fair Haven, NJ Patch. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  6. ^ Winfrey, Kerry (January 4, 2015). “We interviewed Katie Coyle, author of ‘Vivian Apple at the End of the World’“. HelloGiggles. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  7. ^ Fitzpatrick, Anna (May 22, 2014). “40 Best YA Novels”. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  8. ^ “VIVIAN APPLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Katie Coyle”. Kirkus Reviews. October 22, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  9. ^ White, Caitlin. “14 January YA Books To Cozy Up With This Month”. Bustle. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  10. ^ Stevenson, Deborah (15 September 2015). “Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle by Katie Coyle (review)”. Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. 69 (2): 83. doi:10.1353/bcc.2015.0799. ISSN 1558-6766. S2CID 142633820. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  11. ^ Heppermann, Christine (January 29, 2015). “Young adult roundup: ‘Jackaby,’ others”. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  12. ^ Gallagher, Meave (2015-09-09). “24 New Books Every Twentysomething Woman Needs to Read This Fall”. Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  13. ^ Johnson, Adam (2015-10-06). The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780544569638.
  14. ^ “One Story – Awards”. www.one-story.com. Retrieved 2018-10-12.

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