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The Boy Book

E. Lockhart

On some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

—E. Lockhart in The Boy Book

About E. Lockhart

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Emily Jenkins (born September 13, 1967), who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young adult novels, and adult fiction. She is best known for the novels The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and We Were Liars; the latter was adapted into a television series in 2025. Her father, Len Jenkin, is a playwright.

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