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name: Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
about: Jennifer Salvato Doktorski is an award-winning author of five YA novels, HOW MY SUMMER WENT UP IN FLAMES, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, THE SUMMER AFTER YOU &amp; ME, a YALSA Teens' Top 10, AUGUST &amp; EVERYTHING AFTER and the forthcoming FINDING NORMAL 2025.Her first paid gig was writing obituaries for the North Jersey Herald &amp; News, where she developed a life-long taste for coffee, news, biting sarcasm, and irreverent humor. She also worked as a speech writer, bank teller, ghostwriter, bookkeeper in a lampshade factory, pet shop clerk, and music zine editor.She lives with her family in New Jersey and spends her summers “down the shore,” where everything's always all right. Jennifer Salvato Doktorski is an award-winning author of five YA novels, HOW MY SUMMER WENT UP IN FLAMES, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, THE SUMMER AFTER YOU &amp; ME, a YALSA Teens' Top 10, AUGUST &amp; EVERYTHING AFTER and the forthcoming FINDING NORMAL 2025.Her first paid gig was writing obituaries for the North Jersey Herald &amp; News, where she developed a life-long taste for coffee, news, biting sarcasm, and irreverent humor. She also worked as a speech writer, bank teller, ghostwriter, bookkeeper in a lampshade factory, pet shop clerk, and music zine editor.She lives with her family in New Jersey and spends her summers “down the shore,” where everything's always all right. ...more