Lucy Frank is the author of seven young adult and middle grade novels. Her first, I AM AN ARTICHOKE was a 1995 Publishers Weekly Flying Start. Booklist said of WILL YOU BE MY BRUSSELS SPROUT, its follow-up: "This quirky coming-of-age story will confirm Frank's place as a fresh new YA talent." Her books have been praised as "funny, brainy and sweet", "wise and terrifically well-observed."
In the years before she devoted herself to writing full-time, Lucy worked as a vitamin pill shipping clerk, editorial assistant, children's clothing designer, low-income housing program administrator, budget analyst, mutual fund portfolio manager, employment counselor, and lab administrator for a neurobiology lab that studied mouse reproductive behavior. Her husband is a film editor and cellist. They have a son in graduate school. Lucy writes in the dining room/office of their New York City apartment as well as at the farmhouse in upstate New York that they've been fixing up, inside and out, for the past twenty-five years. When she isn't writing, she can be found tromping through the woods, or working in the garden.
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I wrote this book for the seventh grade me, standing at the blackboard with my gum plastered ignominiously on my nose, forced to write one hundred times, "SILENCE IS GOLDEN AND I WANT
TO BE A RICH LITTLE GIRL," the me with energy to burn and a gazillion ideas, except at school.
I wrote it for the adult me who thought that if I only worked hard enough, got the jargon down, and
wore the right clothes, I could somehow make myself fit in at my many jobs.
I wrote it for every girl or boy who knows there has to be more to life than getting through the day,
going through the motions, and trying to meet other people's expectations.
Lucy Frank
TO BE A RICH LITTLE GIRL," the me with energy to burn and a gazillion ideas, except at school.
I wrote it for the adult me who thought that if I only worked hard enough, got the jargon down, and
wore the right clothes, I could somehow make myself fit in at my many jobs.
I wrote it for every girl or boy who knows there has to be more to life than getting through the day,
going through the motions, and trying to meet other people's expectations.
Lucy Frank
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