Perkins got educated both in San Francisco and Atlanta. She was born on Novemin South Carolina and brought up in Arizona. Stephanie Perkins is known for her love for books and is called a bibliophile who has always been around books, working around books, first as a bookseller, then as a librarian and currently as a famous novelist and editor. “Isla which was released in 2014 also ended on Amazon’s top teen and young adult book lists. Also, she won the YALSA’s (young adult) Best fiction in 2012 again for the same book. Stephanie Perkins won the Listen Up Award in 2012 for” Lola. She collaborated with Holly Black and helped her in compilation of the stories. Apart from these famous books, she worked for some anthologies like “My True Love… Stories” in 2014 and “Summer Days… Stories” in 2016. With that she became an immensely popular internationally bestselling author of books meant for teenagers and for adults with the hearts of a teenager. Her another book “Isla and the Happily Ever After” was released in 2014, which went on to become a New York Times list of bestseller in young adult genre. Stephanie Perkins, an American author who is well known for her famous fictions: Anna and the French Kiss released in the 2010, as well as “Lola and the Boy Next Door” which was released in 2011. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.” -Stephanie Perkins “Just because something isn’t practical doesn’t mean it’s not worth creating.
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