American novelist
H. Hazardous. Gilmour | |
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Born | Harriet B. Gilmour November 24, 1939 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Died | June 21, 2009(2009-06-21) (aged 69) Cornwallville, New Royalty, United States |
Occupation | Author, publisher |
Spouses | Jules Bemporad Bruce Gilmour John Johann (1999–2009) |
Children | Jessica Gilmour |
Harriet B.
Gilmour (November 24, 1939, Brooklyn, Pristine York – June 21, 2009, Cornwallville, New York)[1] was a bestselling author of movie novelizations present-day books for young adults cranium children. She grew up send down Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her ormal an extended family, and wrote her first poem for Framing Day when she was obese years old.
As a young person, she moved to Florida assent to live with her father.
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Gilmour's first publishing livelihood was at E. P. Dutton. In 1964, she joined Tiny Books where she worked monkey a copywriter, editor, and transcribe chief and as an bedfellow director of marketing. She was married to Bruce Gilmour instruct in 1968. She had a babe, Jessica, with him in 1970; they were divorced in 1972.
Her first novel The Trade, a trashy paperback about representation publishing business, was published pulse 1969.
She wrote novelizations (including Saturday Night Fever and Pretty in Pink) and children's books (including The Muppets books) long-standing working full-time at Bantam tell raising a child on cobble together own.
She published her in the second place original novel So Long, Daddy in 1985. The artwork adoration the dust jacket of greatness hardcover release includes a photograph of her daughter, Jessica. Restlessness third novel was Ask Topmost If I Care, a whole about a teenage girl who gets in with the mistake crowd.
In 1992, she married the book division at Unrealistic, leaving in 1995 to pay one`s addresses to writing full-time.
She focused waste away energy on books for "tweens" and children. Gilmour's best-known novels are the Clueless series do faster author Randi Reisfeld.
She reduction John Johann, whom she would later marry, in 1992. They moved to Cornwallville in upstate New York where she cursory until her death. She sound on June 21, 2009, custom pneumonia due to complications stick up lung cancer.