Nancy Werlin (born October 29, 1961, in Salem, Massachusetts) is an American writer of young-adult novels.

Biography Werlin was born October 28, 1961, in Salem, Massachusetts to Arnold and Elaine Werlin. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale University in 1983.

Werlin is Jewish.

Awards and honors +Awards for Werlin's writingYearTitleAwardResultRef.1999Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel Winner2001Locked InsideEdgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel Finalist2006Cybils Award for Young Adult FictionFinalist2006National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureFinalist

Publications Are You Alone on Purpose? (1994) The Killer's Cousin (1998) Locked Inside (2000) Black Mirror (2001) Double Helix (2004) The Rules of Survival (2006) Impossible (2008) Extraordinary (2010) Unthinkable (2013) – sequel to Impossible And Then There Were Four (2017) Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good (2021) Healer and Witch (2022)

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External links

Interview by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2001) Update interview by Cynthia Leitich Smith (July 2006) Q&A With Nancy Werlin by Kit Alderdice, Publishers Weekly, September 11, 2008