Allen Zadoff
1967
Allen Zadoff is a widely popular American author who likes to write his novels in the young adult fiction genre. Allen is particularly famous for his series, ‘The Unknown Assassin’, which is also based on young adult genre. He has won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award in the year 2010 for his novel Good, Girl and Other Things. Allen’s novel was also included in the list of popular paperback young adult novels of the year 2012 by the YALSA and has also been finalized to be made into a feature film. Allen was born in Massachusetts, United States, where he was raised. After growing up, he went on to stay in different places like Manhattan, Los Angeles, upstate New York and Tokyo. Before becoming an author, Allen was a stage director and received his graduation degree from of the American Repertory Theater’s Institute for Advanced Theater Training in the Harvard University. Allen also attended a workshop in Hollywood that was organized by the Warner Bros. He completed his academic graduation from the Cornell University. As of today, Allen stays in Los Angeles and spends most of his time in writing novels for his series’. He also works as a writing teacher, teaching the art of writing to the young and upcoming writers of America.