
Jennifer Niven is the Emmy Award-winning #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of ten books, including All the Bright Places and Holding up the Universe. Her books have been translated in over 75 languages, and All the Bright Places has won literary awards around the world, including the GoodReads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2015. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, YALSA, Barnes & Noble, BuzzFeed, the New York Public Library, and others, and was the #1 Kids' Indie Next Book for Winter '14-'15. The film starring Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Luke Wilson, and Keegan-Michael Key, is now streaming on Netflix, with a script by Jennifer and Liz Hannah (The Post). Jennifer is currently at work on her fourth and fifth novels for young adults, with number three—Breathless—coming out September 29. She also oversees Germ, a literary and lifestyle web magazine for girls and boys age high school and beyond that celebrates beginnings, futures, and all the amazing and agonizing moments in between. Her previous works include four novels for adults, as well as three nonfiction books. She divides her time between Los Angeles and coastal Georgia with her husband, kids, and literary cats.
Series
Books

Velva Jean Learns to Fly
2011

The Aqua Net Diaries
Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town
2009

Holding Up the Universe
2016

All the Bright Places
2015

Ada Blackjack
A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
2003

The Ice Master
2000

Velva Jean Learns to Drive
2009

Breathless
2020

American Blonde
2014

Ne pars pas sans moi
2023

Becoming Clementine
2012