![]() ![]() We Were Liars made the shortlist of four books for the 2014 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Another novel for teens, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Michael L. There are three sequels, The Boy Book (2006), The Treasure Map of Boys (2009), and Real Live Boyfriends (2010), and the four are also known collectively as the Ruby Oliver novels after their central protagonist. Her first book by Lockhart was a novel, The Boyfriend List, published by Random House Dell Delacorte Press in 2005. Jenkins writes as E. Lockhart for the young adult market "Lockhart" was the family name of her mother's mother. ![]() She went to Vassar College-where she studied illustrated books and interviewed Barry Moser for her senior thesis-and graduate school at Columbia University, where she earned a doctorate in English literature. ![]() She attended Lakeside School, a private high school in North Seattle. In high school she attended summer drama schools at Northwestern University and the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. ![]() Jenkins grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Seattle, Washington. ![]()
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