![]() In a recent phone call with Vanity Fair, she revealed that she thought Carry On might be her last book. What they couldn’t have known is that Rowell had written Simon Snow’s story while severely ill. ![]() Carry On - the story of Simon Snow (a British boy with magical powers, which might sound familiar) and his Malfoy-esque wizarding-school roommate, rival, and eventual boyfriend, Baz - was published in 2015, and Rowell’s loyal readers didn’t quite know what to make of it. Rowling’s stories long before it was popular to do so. Fangirl, about a college freshman named Cath and her very popular Harry Potter-inspired fan fiction, not only struck a particularly resonant chord with her readers, but set the Nebraska-based Rowell on a surprising path to publishing some magical fiction of her own, poking holes in J.K. In 20 she published two novels, Eleanor & Park and Fangirl, which cemented her reputation as a writer uniquely gifted at writing emotionally propulsive contemporary teen stories about smart, sensitive young women and the very nice boys who love them. ![]() Rainbow Rowell had the kind of YA debut most authors dream of. ![]()
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