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Jeanne DuPrau

Born

in San Francisco, California, The United States

June 09, 1944

Website

http://www.jeanneduprau.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children's Books

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Jeanne DuPrau spends several hours of every day at her computer, thinking up sentences. She has this quote taped to her wall: "A writer is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other people" (Thomas Mann).

This gives her courage, because she finds writing very hard. So many words to choose from! So many different things that could happen in a story at any moment! Writing is one tough decision after another.

But it's also the most satisfying thing she knows how to do. So she keeps doing it. So far, she has written four novels, six books of nonfiction, and quite a few essays and stories.

Jeanne DuPrau doesn't write every minute of every day. She also putters around in her garden. She lives in California, where it's easy to grow every ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 418,527 ratings · 23,218 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 286,198 ratings — published 2003 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The People of Sparks (Book of Ember, #2) 3.69 avg rating — 60,788 ratings — published 2004 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diamond of Darkhold (Book of Ember, #4) 3.82 avg rating — 29,390 ratings — published 2008 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prophet of Yonwood (Book of Ember, #3) 3.28 avg rating — 32,808 ratings — published 2006 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City of Ember: The Graphic Novel by Jeanne DuPrau, Dallas Middaugh (Adapter), Niklas Asker (Illustrator) 3.84 avg rating — 3,363 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City of Ember / The People of Sparks / The Prophet of Yonwood / The Diamond of Darkhold 4.26 avg rating — 1,542 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Books of Ember 4.19 avg rating — 1,034 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Car Trouble 3.53 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Project F 2.91 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape the Vortex (Voyagers #5) 4.14 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jeanne DuPrau

Book of Ember (4 books)
by

Jeanne DuPrau

3.81 avg rating — 415,113 ratings

Book of Ember Graphic Novels (1 book)
by

Jeanne DuPrau,

Dallas Middaugh (Adapter),

Niklas Asker (Illustrator)

3.84 avg rating — 3,363 ratings

Quotes by Jeanne DuPrau (?)

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”
― Jeanne Duprau, The City of Ember

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“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”
― Jeanne DuPrau , The People of Sparks

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“There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.”
― Jeanne Duprau, The City of Ember

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What would you like to read for May's group read? The theme is decades.

Cloud Atlasby David Mitchell

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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) by Ken Follett

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

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The Future of Us by Jay Asher

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The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1) by Jeanne DuPrau

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

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The Giving Treeby Shel Silverstein

8 votes 4.8%

The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1) by Julia Quinn

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

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