David Levithan
David Levithan (born September 7, 1972) is an American young adult fiction author and editor. Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List are two of his many books with strong male LGBT characters. The Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature has been given to six of Levithan's novels, making him the category's most well-known author.
Film adaptations of three of Levithan's books have been made and gained great success. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, his debut project with Rachel Cohn, was released in 2006 and adapted for the big screen in 2008. Every Day, a romantic fantasy drama was released in 2018 and adapted from Levithan's 2012 novel of the same name. Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, his second project with Rachel Cohn, was published in 2007 and then adapted into a film in 2015. For 6 of his novels including The Realm of Possibility, Boy Meets Boy, Love Is the Higher Law, How They Met and Other Stories, Wide Awake, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Levithan won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2016.
In an interview with Barnes & Noble, Levithan claimed that Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day taught him how to write stories that were both humorous and sympathetic. He is also looking forward to continuing his editing work, as he said in an interview: "I love editing just as much, if not more than writing".
