Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness editor Jennifer M. They now live in Brooklyn, New York and Gidwitz writes full-time.Ī Tale Dark and Grimm was named named a New York Times Editor's Choice. In 2011, Gidwitz married Lauren Mancia, whom he met in university. He credits a stint as a substitute librarian as the inspiration for writing The Grimm Trilogy. He attended Columbia University, where he majored in English literature and spent his junior year abroad in the university's Oxford/Cambridge Scholars program.Īfter university, Gidwitz became a teacher at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn. Through his father's family, he is also related to Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate and Trump appointee Ronald Gidwitz. His grandfather, Willard Gidwitz, was a president at Helene Curtis. He was born in San Francisco in 1982 but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2021, his book A Tale Dark and Grimm was adapted into an animated miniseries on Netflix. He received a 2017 Newbery Honor for The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog (2016). Adam Gidwitz (born February 14, 1982) is the author of the best selling children's books A Tale Dark and Grimm (2010), In a Glass Grimmly (2012), and The Grimm Conclusion (2013), all published by Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
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