Your first name is the largest identifier of yourself in your life. Rainbow Rowell, an accomplished author, uses her unique name to her advantage, as she stated in an interview with GoodReads in 2013: “But people notice my name, and they remember it.” Rowell uses her writing to express and convey her quirks and experiences from her childhood and adulthood. Rainbow Rowell was born on February 24, 1973 in Omaha, Nebraska. Rowell loved to read in her childhood, and she states that she was a “weird girl with [her] head in a book.” (GoodReads) In school, she enjoyed writing because she received the most attention from her teachers for what she wrote. She would go on to edit her high school newspaper, and eventually major in journalism, advertising, and English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After graduating, Rowell undertook a job in 1995 as a columnist and copywriter for the Omaha World Herald. This job increased her exposure and honed her abilities as a writer. She quit after working for the Omaha World Herald around ten years later …show more content…
Rowell kept the project secret from everyone she knew just incase it failed, but it did quite the opposite, as Kirkus Reviews listed it as one of the outstanding debuts of 2011. In 2013, she released two novels: Eleanor and Park and Fangirl. Both of these novels are relatable tales about young adults in high school, which brought attention from a large young adult audience. Both Eleanor and Park and Fangirl received a 4.5/5 star rating on Amazon. Rowell released Landline in 2014, which focuses on a troubled marriage. Identifying the large change in target audiences from her last novels, Rowell stated in a public reading of Landline: “All my books are different, and it makes me nervous. People tell me they loved my last book and I immediately start saying, ‘Well, you’re not going to like the next one at all!'” (Barnes &