Daisy Whitney

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Daisy Whitney is an American young adult fiction author and multimedia reporter. Her novels include The Mockingbirds, The Rivals, When You Were Here, Starry Nights, and The Fire Artist.

Biography

Whitney has a 1994 degree in art history from Brown University. In 2007, while working as a reporter for TelevisionWeek, Whitney created the webcast "New Media Minute" with her videographer husband, broadcast on BeetTV.com, iMedia and other sites.

She has published several young adult fiction novels. The Mockingbirds was published in 2010, followed by its sequel The Rivals in 2012. In 2013, she published When You Were Here, which she has said was in part inspired by the film Lost in Translation. Starry Nights was also published in 2013, followed by The Fire Artist in 2014.

Books

• When You Were Here, Little, Brown and Company, 2013,
• The Mockingbirds, Little, Brown and Company, 2012,
• Starry Nights, Bloomsbury. 2013,

References

References

1. "Daisy Whitney".
2. (January 2, 2008). "How to: Making Daisy Whitney's 'New Media Minute'". [[Ad Age]].
3. (October 1, 2010). "The Mockingbirds". [[Kirkus Reviews]].
4. (March 2011). "The Mockingbirds". [[School Library Journal]].
5. (October 15, 2010). "The Mockingbirds". [[Booklist]].
6. (February 15, 2012). "The Rivals". [[Booklist]].
7. (February 2012). "The Rivals". [[School Library Journal]].
8. (December 15, 2011). "The Rivals". [[Kirkus Reviews]].
9. (August 2013). "When You Were Here". [[School Library Journal]].
10. Lamb, Joyce. "Daisy Whitney: A strange city can point you to the one you love".
11. (August 1, 2013). "Starry Nights". [[Kirkus Reviews]].
12. (September 15, 2013). "Starry Nights". [[Booklist]].
13. (September 15, 2014 }}{{Dead link). "The Fire Artist". [[Kirkus Reviews]].
14. (2014). "The Fire Artist". [[School Library Journal]].
15. ''When You Were Here'' by Daisy Whitney (review), Deborah Stevenson, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, [[Johns Hopkins University Press]], Volume 67, Number 1, September 2013 p. 60, {{doi. 10.1353/bcc.2013.0553
16. "When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney".
17. "The Mockingbirds Book Review".
18. "The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney".
19. "Starry Nights by Daisy Whitney".

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