Ruta Sepetys

Rūta Šepetys
Sepetys in 2016
Sepetys in 2016
BornRuta Sepetys
(1967-11-19) November 19, 1967 (age 57)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationWriter
EducationHillsdale College (BS)
Notable works
Website
rutasepetys.com

Ruta Sepetys (Lithuanian: Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is a New York Times and international bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Josette Frank Award for Fiction.

She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament[1] and NATO. Her work has been published in over sixty countries and forty languages and is currently in development for film and television.

  1. ^ "On the Books: Guardians of the Galaxy's Drax the Destroyer gets his own comic book". Entertainment Weekly. April 27, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2017.

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