Blake Nelson author biography, plus links to books by Blake Nelson.

Blake Nelson

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Blake Nelson grew up in Portland, OR. He attended Wesleyan University and NYU. His first novel Girl, was serialized in Sassy Magazine and was made into a film starring Selma Blaire and Summer Phoenix. Nelson has since published ten more novels, including Rockstar, Superstar, The New Rules of High School, Prom Anonymous, and Gender Blender. His science fiction novel They Came From Below was a Kliatt Editors' Choice pick in 2008 and his 2006 novel Paranoid Park was made into a film by Gus Van Sant, which won the Cannes Special Anniversary Prize Award in 2006, as well as Italy's Grinzane Literary award.

This biography was last updated on 03/01/2011.

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