The novel was optioned for a screen adaptation within weeks of its publication. In 2014, Han released a young adult romance novel, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, about Lara Jean Song Covey, a high school student whose life turns upside down when the letters she wrote to her five past crushes are mailed without her knowledge. The trilogy includes Fire with Fire, published in 2013, and Ashes to Ashes, published in 2014. The novel follows three high school girls seeking revenge in their island town and contains paranormal and romance elements. Han's second young adult trilogy was co-written with Siobhan Vivian and began with the 2012 publication of Burn for Burn. The trilogy is the story of protagonist/narrator, Belly Conklin, who falls in love with two brothers she has known her whole life and works through a messy love triangle. The three novels, The Summer I Turned Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You, and We'll Always Have Summer, were published from 2009 to 2011 by Simon & Schuster and quickly became New York Times Best Sellers. Her next project was a young adult romance trilogy about a girl's coming-of-age during her summer breaks. Shug was published in 2006 and is about Annemarie Wilcox, a twelve-year-old trying to navigate the perils of junior high school. Han wrote her first book, the children's novel Shug, while she was in college. Han has never been married and has no children, she resides in Brooklyn, New York.
In 2006, she received her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The New School.
She graduated from Governor's School for Government and International Studies in 1998, then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Han was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, to Korean-American parents. She is best known for writing the To All the Boys series and The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which were adapted into a film series and TV series, respectively. Jenny Han is an American author of young adult fiction and children's fiction.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BFA)
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