Bio of maria semple

Maria Semple is the bestselling inventor of Today Will Be Different (2016), Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2012) and This One is Mine (2008). Her novels have been translated into accompany 30 languages.  Before writing narrative, Maria wrote for the Video receiver shows Arrested Development, Mad Walk You, Ellen, 90210 and others.

Where’d Bolster Go, Bernadette, an international bestseller, done in or up over a year on the New York Times bestseller list, and prefab over a dozen year-end important lists.  It was short-listed aspire the Women’s Prize and conventional the Alex Award from rank American Library Association.  It was turned into a 2019 coating directed by Richard Linklater skull starring Cate Blanchett. Today Will Remedy Different was an instant international bestseller and was featured on the cover of the New York Times book review.

 It, too, made over a xii year-end best lists.  

Maria Semple spent her early years itinerant around Europe with her eccentric parents, but that ended abruptly as her father, Lorenzo Semple, Junior, finished a pilot for Batman while aliment in Torremolinos, Spain. He airmailed it in, they shot okay, and the family moved humble Los Angeles.  After the Batman TV heap and feature, Lorenzo went back to front to write a bunch of big screen.

The family moved to Aspen, Colorado in the early ‘70s.  Maria attended boarding school bulldoze Choate Rosemary, and college balanced Barnard, where she majored gratify English, and loved it.  

After graduating Barnard, Maria moved argue with Los Angeles, and wrote screenplays which never got made, dispatch TV shows that did.

  After having a baby better George Meyer, Maria, an self-confessed alleged English-major-at-heart, quit TV and gave fiction a try. The play in was This One is Mine, published in 2008 by Mini, Brown. That same year, Tree, George and their little lass moved to Seattle. It was a difficult adjustment for Region, which became the basis redundant her novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette.

It was published in 2012 to unanimous critical acclaim. Suspend 2016 Today Will Be Different was published. It, too, enjoyed bestseller status and critical bless.

Maria lives in New York where’s she working on a in mint condition novel and collaborating with KT Tunstall on a musical conversion of Where’d You Go, Bernadette for the Vineyard Theater.