Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman
Shusterman at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born	Neal Shusterman (1962-11-12) November 12, 1962 Brooklyn, New York, USA
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Website
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Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Challenger Deep.

Early life

Shusterman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Even from a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. At age 8, Shusterman sent a letter to E. B. White, informing him that he believed Charlotte's Web needed a sequel. White replied, stating that he thought the book was fine as it was, requiring no sequel, but encouraged Shusterman to continue writing. At age 16, Shusterman and his family moved to Mexico City.^[1] He finished high school there at the American School Foundation and quotes, "Having an international experience changed my life, giving me a fresh perspective on the world, and a sense of confidence I might not have otherwise." He attended the University of California, Irvine, where he double-majored in psychology and theater, and was also on the varsity swim team. During his years there, he wrote a popular humor column for the school paper.

Shusterman is Jewish.^[2]

Career

After college, Shusterman worked as an assistant at Irvin Arthur Associates, a talent agency in Los Angeles, where Lloyd Segan became his agent. Within a year, Shusterman had his first book deal, and a screenwriting job. He currently lives in Southern California with his four children.^[3]

Shusterman has received numerous honors for his books, including the National Book Award in 2015 for his novel Challenger Deep, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the 2008 California Young Reader Medal for The Schwa Was Here. He served as a judge for the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2012.^[4] His novels Downsiders and Full Tilt have each won over 20 awards. Unwind has won more than 30 awards, and is now in development with Constantin Films as a feature film series. His novel “Scythe” is in development with Universal as a feature film.

Shusterman has also written for TV, including the Original Disney Channel movie Pixel Perfect, as well as episodes of Goosebumps and Animorphs.^[3] He is also adapting his novel “Challenger Deep” for 20th Century Fox.

Shusterman was invited by Orson Scott Card to write novels parallel to Ender's Game about other characters from the series, but schedules didn't permit, and Card wrote Ender's Shadow and the subsequent series himself.^[5]

Awards

• 2005 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award.^[6]
• 2008 California Young Reader Medal for The Schwa Was Here.^[7]
• 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Challenger Deep.^[8][9]

Bibliography

Fictional Series

The Accelerati Trilogy (with Eric Elfman)

• Tesla's Attic (2014) ISBN 978-1423148036 ^[10][11][12]
• Edison's Alley (2015) ISBN 978-1423148067 ^[13][14]
• Hawking's Hallway (2016) ^[15]

Antsy Bonano

• The Schwa Was Here (2004) ISBN 978-0756967192 ^[16][17]
• Antsy Does Time (2008) ISBN 978-0525478256 ^[18][19]
• Ship Out of Luck (2013) ISBN 978-0525422266 ^[20][21]

Dark Fusion

• Dread Locks (2005) ^[22][23]
• Red Rider's Hood (2005) ^[24][25]
• Duckling Ugly (2006) ^[26][27]

Shadow Club

• The Shadow Club (2002)
• The Shadow Club Rising (2003) ^[28][29]

Skinjacker Trilogy

• Everlost (2006) ^[30][31]
• Everwild (2009) ^[32][33]
• Everfound (2011) ^[34][35]

Star Shards

• Scorpion Shards (1995) ^[36]
• Thief of Souls (1999) ^[37]
• Shattered Sky (2002) ^[38][39]

The Unwind Dystology

• Unwind (2007) ISBN 978-1416912040 ^[40][41]
• UnWholly (2012)
• UnStrung (2012) ISBN 978-1442423664 ^[42][43]
• UnSouled (2013) ISBN 978-1442423695 ^[44][45]
• UnDivided (2014) ISBN 978-1481409759 ^[46][47]
• UnBound (2015) (short story collection) ^[48]

The X-Files Universe

• The X-Files Young Adult Series

• 3) Bad Sign (1997) [writing as Easton Royce] ^[49]
• 10) Dark Matter (1999) [writing as Easton Royce]

• The X-Files Young Readers Series

• 8) Voltage (1996) [writing as Easton Royce]

Novels

• Dissidents (1989)
• Speeding Bullet (1991) ^[50]
• What Daddy Did (1991) ^[51]
• The Eyes of Kid Midas (1992) ^[52]
• The Aliens Approach (1996) [writing as Easton Royce ]
• Mutiny (1996) [writing as Easton Royce ]
• The Dark Side of Nowhere (1997) ISBN 978-0316789073 ^[53][54]
• Downsiders (1999) ^[55][56]
• Full Tilt (2003) ISBN 978-0689803741 ^[57][58]
• Bruiser (2010) ISBN 978-0061134081 ^[59][60]
• Challenger Deep (2015) ISBN 978-0061134111 ^[61][62]

Picture Books

• Piggyback Ninja (1994)

Short Stories

• Resurrection Bay (2013) ISBN 978-0062295163 ^[63] [published only as an ebook]

Short Story Collections

• Darkness Creeping: Tales to Trouble Your Sleep (1993)
• Darkness Creeping II: More Tales to Trouble Your Sleep (1995)
• Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain (1996)
• Mindstorms: Stories to Blow Your Mind (1996)
• Mindtwisters: Stories To Shred Your Head (1997)
• Mindbenders: Stories to Warp Your Brain (2000)
• Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales (2007)

Games

• How to Host a Murder: Roman Ruins (1997)
• How to Host a Murder: The Grapes of Frath (1997)
• How to Host a Teen Mystery: Hot Times at Hollywood High (1997)
• How to Host a Murder: The Good, the Bad, and the Guilty (1998)
• How to Host a Murder: Tragical Mystery Tour (1999)
• How to Host a Teen Mystery: Barbecue with the Vampire (1999)
• How to Host a Murder: Saturday Night Cleaver (2000)
• How to Host a Murder: Maiming of the Shrew (2001)
• How to Host a Teen Mystery: Roswell That Ends Well (2002)
• How to Host a Murder: An Affair to Dismember (2003)

Nonfiction

• Guy Talk (1987)
• It's Ok to Say No to Cigarettes and Alcohol (1988)
• Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story (1989) with Cherie Currie
• Kid Heroes: True Stories of Rescuers, Survivors, and Achievers (1991)

Poems

• Shadows of Doubt (1993)

References

External links

• Official website
• Shusterman at Facebook
• Shusterman at Twitter
• Shusterman at Instagram
• Neal Shusterman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Neal Shusterman at the Internet Movie Database
• Neal Shusterman at Library of Congress Authorities, with 49 catalog records