On-Screen With… focuses on popular authors whose books that have transcended into television or movies. This month’s featured author is Jenny Hann.
Author at a Glance
- Jenny Han is the author of the best selling-series To All the Boys I Loved Before series
- To All The Boys I Loved Before was one of Netflix’s most re-watched original movies of 2018
- She was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia.
- She is a Korean-American.
- She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.
- In 2014, Han released a young adult romance novel, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- The sequel, P.S. I Still Love You, was released in 2015, and won the Young Adult 2015–2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
- A third novel, Always and Forever, Lara Jean, was released in 2017.
- The film adaptation of the first novel began filming in July 2017 and was released by Netflix in August 2018, to positive reviews.
- She had a brief cameo in the film.
Highlighted Works
To all the boys I’ve loved before / Jenny Han
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed.
But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister’s ex-boyfriend, Josh.
As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.
P.S. I still love you / Jenny Han
Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.
She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren’t. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever.
When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?
In this charming and heartfelt sequel to the New York Times bestseller To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, we see first love through the eyes of the unforgettable Lara Jean. Love is never easy, but maybe that’s part of what makes it so amazing
Always and forever, Lara Jean / Jenny Han
Lara Jean is having the best senior year.
And there’s still so much to look forward to: a class trip to New York City, prom with her boyfriend Peter, Beach Week after graduation, and her dad’s wedding to Ms. Rothschild. Then she’ll be off to college with Peter, at a school close enough for her to come home and bake chocolate chip cookies on the weekends.
Life couldn’t be more perfect!
At least, that’s what Lara Jean thinks . . . until she gets some unexpected news.
Now the girl who dreads change must rethink all her plans—but when your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?
