Gail Carson Levine was born September 17, 1947 in New York, New York. This American born writer's first published novel was Ella Enchanted in 1997, which is now a major motion picture. Levine’s hallmark was telling fairy tales with a twist. For example her Princess Tales was set in the Kingdom of Biddle, which is a collection of stories about light-heart and sassy heroines. She based her story Dave At Night on her father, David. David owned a commercial art studio and her mother, Sylvia, was a teacher who wrote plays for her students to perform. Her sister, Rani, teaches painting and exhibits her art in the US and in Jamaica. Levine used to love to draw and paint, but once she took a course on writing, she found that it was her true passion. She once said, "I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process."
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