Susan Juby
Susan Juby | |
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Born | Ponoka, Alberta | March 30, 1969
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Genre | Young-adult |
Notable works | Alice, I Think, Republic of Dirt |
Spouse | James Waring |
Website | |
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Susan Juby (born March 30, 1969)[1] is a Canadian writer of young adult literature. She is currently residing in Nanaimo, British Columbia, where she is a professor of creative writing at Vancouver Island University.
Juby is most known for her first series that started with Alice, I Think (2000), which was adapted into the television series Alice, I Think by The Comedy Network.
Background[]
Juby was born in Ponoka, Alberta,[1] and later moved to Smithers, British Columbia at the age of six.[1]
Juby initially attended fashion design school, but dropped out after several months.[1] She subsequently started a degree in English literature at the University of Toronto,[1] transferring to the University of British Columbia after two years.[1] After graduating she became an editor at a book publishing company called Hartley and Marks.[1]
Career[]
Juby began her first book as a journal which she wrote on the bus on the way to work and at a local coffee shop. Thistledown published her first book Alice, I Think in 2000.[2] The book was named one of the essential 40 young adult novels by Rolling Stone Magazine. [3]
Juby completed a master's degree in publishing (MPub) from Simon Fraser University in 2002. [4] After publishing Alice, I Think (2000), HarperCollins offered her a contract for three books. Her second book Miss Smithers was published in 2004.[2] To complete the trilogy of Alice, I Think all under one publisher, the original book was bought by HarperCollins. Her third book under this contact was Alice McLeod: Realist at Last, published in 2005.[2] The Comedy Network developed Alice, I Think, a television sitcom based on the novel of the same name. The first episode aired in 2006.[5]
Juby went on to write Another Kind of Cowboy (2007) and a young adult detective novel, Getting the Girl (2008). [6] In 2010, Viking Canada published Nice Recovery, Juby's memoir tracing the time between her experience with teenage alcoholism until her sobriety at age 20.[7]
HarperCollins published Juby's next book in 2011, Home to Woefield (also known as The Woefield Poultry Collective in Canada). This was her first book aimed at an adult audience.[8] She would later write a sequel, Republic of Dirt (2015).[9] In 2016, Republic of Dirt won the Stephen Leacock Award.[10]
Other books by Juby include the dystopian young adult novel Bright's Light (2012), as well as The Truth Commission (2015), and The Fashion Committee (2017), a pair of young adult novels set in an art high school.
Juby was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in 2014. [11]
On February 22, 2020,[12] Juby read excerpts from two as-yet-unpublished works at the Vancouver Island Regional Library's Nanaimo Harbourfront branch. At Your Service is Juby's first crime novel for adults. Me 3 is a middle-grade novel that addresses the #MeToo movement from a child's perspective.[13]
Personal life[]
Juby is an environmental rights activist in her community.[14] She is a creative writing professor at Vancouver Island University, in Nanaimo, British Columbia.[15]
Published works[]
- Alice, I Think (2000)
- I'm Alice (Beauty Queen?) (2004) (Published as Miss Smithers in the United States)
- Alice Macleod: Realist at Last (2005)
- Another Kind of Cowboy (2007)
- Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance and Cookery (2008)
- Nice Recovery (2010)
- The Woefield Poultry Collective (2011) (Published as Home to Woefield in the United States)
- Bright's Light (2012)
- Republic of Dirt (2015)
- The Truth Commission (2015)
- The Fashion Committee (2017)
- At Your Service (Upcoming)[16]
- Me 3 (Upcoming)[17]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Dave Jenkinson, "Susan Juby". CM Magazine, May 11, 2005.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Robert J. Wiersema, "Tales of Teenage Misfits". Quill & Quire, February 2005.
- ^ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/when-holden-met-katniss-the-40-best-ya-novels-27973/susin-nielsen-the-reluctant-journal-of-henry-k-larsen-98224/
- ^ https://susanjuby.com/biography/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484334/
- ^ https://susanjuby.com/books/
- ^ https://quillandquire.com/authors/getting-better-all-the-time/
- ^ https://susanjuby.com/biography/
- ^ https://susanjuby.com/biography/
- ^ "Nanaimo author wins Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour". CTV Vancouver Island, June 12, 2016.
- ^ https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/College%20Citations%202014.pdf
- ^ "Author Talk and Reading with Susan Juby, author of the ALICE, I THINK series and THE WOEFIELD POULTRY COLLECTIVE". Vancouver Island Regional Library. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Author and VIU professor Susan Juby previewing pair of unpublished books". Nanaimo News Bulletin. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ Holmes, Ian. "Nanaimo Council rejects Linley Valley housing proposal". Nanaimo News Now. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ "Susan Juby | Creative Writing and Journalism | VIU". ah.viu.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Author and VIU professor Susan Juby previewing pair of unpublished books". Nanaimo News Bulletin. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ^ "Author and VIU professor Susan Juby previewing pair of unpublished books". Nanaimo News Bulletin. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
External links[]
- 1969 births
- Canadian women novelists
- Living people
- People from Ponoka, Alberta
- Writers from Alberta
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian writers of young adult literature
- Stephen Leacock Award winners
- Women writers of young adult literature
- Vancouver Island University
- University of Toronto alumni
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Simon Fraser University alumni
- Women humorists