Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen is an American novelist known for contemporary young adult fiction, much of it coming-of-age with a romantic thread. Her first book, That Summer, appeared in 1996, and she has since written more than a dozen novels, including Just Listen and The Truth About Forever. Two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal, and in 2017 she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association.