Brent's Brain

For review copies of Brent Hartinger’s books and other press assistance, please contact:

Geography Club, The Last Chance Texaco, The Order of the Poison Oak, Grand & Humble, Split Screen, or Project Sweet Life: Elyse Marshall, HarperCollins Publishers, phone: (212) 261-6793, fax: (212) 261 -6895 elyse.marshall@harpercollins.com

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Business inquiries should be directed to Brent Hartinger's agent, Jennifer DeChiara, at (212) 481-8484, or JennDec@aol.com

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Biography

BRENT HARTINGER is the author of a number of novels for children and teenagers, including Geography Club (HarperCollins, 2003); two sequels to Geography Club called The Order of the Poison Oak (HarperCollins, 2005) and Split Screen (HarperCollins, 2007); The Last Chance Texaco (HarperCollins, 2004); Grand & Humble (HarperCollins, January 2006); and Project Sweet Life (HarperCollins, winter 2009).

Mr. Hartinger's many book honors include being named the winner of the Lambda Book Award, the Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award, the National Best Book Award, and a Book Sense Pick (four times).

Also a playwright and screenwriter, Mr. Hartinger’s ten plays have been produced in dozens of theaters nationwide (twice in New York); his screenplays have won many awards, including a 2009 Writers Network Fellowship and the $5000 Fort Lauderdale Film Festival Screenwriting in the Sun Award. He has several scripts under option and in the process of studio or network development, including a film version of his novel, Geography Club.

He founded and now edits the fantasy-themed website, TheTorchOnline.com.

Mr. Hartinger lives in Seattle with another novelist, Michael Jensen, his partner since 1992. He has counseled dozens of teenagers, both as co-facilitator of Oasis, a 200-member gay teen support organization he helped found, and as a counselor at a group home for young people.

Mr. Hartinger is a co-founder of Authors Supporting Intellectual Freedom (or AS IF!), an anti-censorship group, and speaks frequently at schools, bookstores, conferences, churches, and civic groups on the subjects of censorship, writing, and social tolerance. He sometimes teaches creative writing at Vermont College in the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults.

High-resolution photos of Brent Hartinger available for periodical and web-site use with proper photographer credit:

Photo Credit: Dani Weiss Photography

Photo Credit: Tim Cathersal

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