Alyson noel short biography
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Alyson Noël
Writer
Alyson Noël (born December 3, ) is an American author from Orange County, California.[1]
Biography
[edit]Alyson Noël was born on December 3, , raised in Orange County and attended Richard Nixon Elementary School for two years. She is the youngest of three girls born to her divorced parents.[2] After leaving her high school, Troy High School, she moved to Mykonos, Greece and lived there.[3] Afterward, she moved to Manhattan, New York, where she worked as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines. She now lives in Laguna Beach, California. She has had a variety of jobs such as babysitter, department store sales clerk, administrative assistant, office manager, jewelry maker, T-shirt painter, and front desk hotel clerk, in addition to flight attendant and considers herself an author.[4] She was inspired to become an author after reading Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, in the sixth grade. Her first bo
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Alyson Noel
Goodreads Author
Born
Orange County, The United StatesWebsite
AlysonNoel
Genre
Young Adult, Children's, Paranormal
Influences
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Member Since
March
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*Note to readers: I'm slowly adding to the long list of books I've read, books I'm reading, and books I want to read. I only add books I loved, hence all my ratings are 5 stars.
Alyson Noël is the #1 NYT best-selling author of many award-winning and critically acclaimed novels for readers of all ages.
With 9 NYT bestsellers and millions of copies in print, her books have been translated into 36 languages, and have topped the NYT, USA Today, LA Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Wall Street Journal, NCIBA, and Walmart Bestsellers lists, as well as several international bestsellers lists.
She is best known for THE IMMORTALS series, THE RILEY BLOOM series, an