14 Facts About Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas.

In 2017, Sarah Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work.

Sarah Dessen was born in Evanston, Illinois, on June 6,1970, to Alan and Cynthia Sarah Dessen, who were both professors at the University of North Carolina, teaching Shakespearean literature and classics.

Sarah Dessen became involved with a 21-year-old when she was 15 but cut all contact with him shortly after.

Sarah Dessen attended Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina, but dropped out before the end of the first semester.

Sarah Dessen waitressed at the Flying Burrito restaurant in Chapel Hill and was Lee Smith's assistant while launching her writing career.

Sarah Dessen became a full-time writer before the 2006 release of Just Listen.

In 2017, Dessen was awarded the Margaret A Edwards Award for her novels Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, Just Listen, The Truth About Forever, Along for the Ride, What Happened to Goodbye, and This Lullaby.

Sarah Dessen's post was supported by a number of authors, including Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Weiner, Siobhan Vivian, Roxane Gay, and N K Jemisin.

Sarah Dessen subsequently deleted her tweet and apologized for her remarks, acknowledging that it had resulted in her fans connecting her comments with their source to identify and harass Nelson that led to the former student deleting her social media accounts.

Sarah Dessen describes this term as the young girls in her books being able to have friends, look good, be a good student and have one's life together, and to make it look easy.

Sarah Dessen said that she likes to exercise and read in her free time because all writers are going to be anxious, it's part of the process, but it opens their mind more because they see the world differently than readers.

In June 2021, it was announced The Truth About Forever was added to the Sarah Dessen books obtained by Netflix to be adapted into a feature film.

In July 2023, Sarah Dessen shared online that Netflix was no longer moving forward with other adaptations.