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

Dreamquest: Dot Lin, Starscape Publicity, Tor Books, phone: (646) 307-5408, fax: (212) 982-2862 Dot.Lin@tor.com

For urgent deadlines, contact Brent Hartinger directly at: (253) 459-3581 (press only, please)

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

Inquiries about speaking engagements, including school visits, should be directed to HarperCollins, at (212) 261-6644, or authorvisits@harpercollins.com

Biography

BRENT HARTINGER is the author of seven novels. Six are aimed at teenagers and adults: 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, winter2009). Mr. Hartinger is also the author of Dreamquest: Tales of Slumberia (Tor Books, 2007), a fantasy aimed at readers eight and older.

Mr. Hartinger's many book honors include being named the winner of the Lambda Award, the Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award, a Book Sense Pick (four times), the National Best Book 2007 Award, a TeenReads.com "Best Book" (five times), a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age (three times), a Booklist Top Ten First Young Adult Novel, a Bookspan Book Club Main Selection (twice), and various other honors from YALSA, the IRA, and the ALA.

Also a playwright, Mr. Hartinger’s fifteen plays have been produced in dozens of theaters nationwide, and have been selected for inclusion in at least thirty-five playwriting festivals.

As a screenwriter, Mr. Hartinger has won many awards, including 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.

Mr. Hartinger lives south of 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 troubled 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 appeared at some sixty such events last year. He teaches on the faculty 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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