Maria Semple
Author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
About the Author
Maria Semple is the bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Today Will Be Different. Maria attended college at Barnard, where she majored in English. After graduating she wrote for the television shows 90210, Mad About You, Arrested Development and others. Her first novel, This One Is show more Mine was published by Little, Brown in 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Maria Semple
Dear Mountain Room Parents [short story] — Author — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Semple, Maria
- Birthdate
- 1964-05-21
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Aspen, Colorado, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Education
- Barnard College
- Occupations
- screenwriter
producer
novelist - Relationships
- Semple Jr., Lorenzo (father)
- Awards and honors
- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist (2013)
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I sped through this, but I found it got a little slow after Bernadette disappears. I'm interested to see how they are going to adapt the film.
I loved most of this book but wasn't crazy about the part in Antarctica and the ending. Going to read more by this author.
Smart, funny , fast paced,quirky characters like Bee and her mom Bernadette who doesn’t fit the mold of family life. She may be crazy or may not be but Bernadette is a wonderful character.
I enjoyed this novel very much. Read in 2 days
I enjoyed this novel very much. Read in 2 days
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Statistics
- Works
- 5
- Members
- 9,424
- Popularity
- #2,548
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 646
- ISBNs
- 102
- Languages
- 15
- Favorited
- 9
- Touchstones
- 436
It’s not perfect - I feel like the book could have more overtly acknowledged how privileged these folks are even as it acknowledges how annoying they are - but it’s got such a warm heart once it pivots to Bee that I can’t help but enjoy it anyway.