Nancy Werlin Explained

Nancy Werlin
Birth Date:	October 29, 1961
Birth Place:	Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Education:	Yale University (BA)
Notable Works:	Double Helix The Rules of Survival

Nancy Werlin (born October 29, 1961, in Salem, Massachusetts) is an American writer of young-adult novels.

Biography

Werlin was born October 29, 1961, in Salem, Massachusetts to Arnold and Elaine Werlin.^[1] She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale University in 1983.

Werlin is Jewish.

Awards and honors

Awards for Werlin's writing!Year!Title!Award!Result!Ref.

1999			Winner
2001	Locked Inside		Finalist
2006		Cybils Award for Young Adult Fiction	Finalist	^[2]
2006		National Book Award for Young People's Literature	Finalist	^[3]

Publications

• Are You Alone on Purpose? (1994)
• The Killer's Cousin (1998)
• Locked Inside (2000)
• Black Mirror (2001)
• Double Helix (2004)
• The Rules of Survival (2006)
• Impossible (2008)
• Extraordinary (2010)
• Unthinkable (2013) – sequel to Impossible
• And Then There Were Four (2017)
• Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good (2021)
• Healer and Witch (2022)

External links

• • Interview by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2001)
• Update interview by Cynthia Leitich Smith (July 2006)
• Q&A With Nancy Werlin by Kit Alderdice, Publishers Weekly, September 11, 2008

Notes and References

1. Web site: Werlin, Nancy 1961– . 2023-04-07 . Encyclopedia.com.
2. Web site: 2006 Cybils Finalists . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230321201410/https://www.cybils.com/cybils-books/2006-cybils-finalists . 2023-03-21 . 2023-03-21 . en-US.
3. Web site: National Book Awards 2006 . 2022-01-24 . National Book Foundation . en-US.