Yazar: Valerie Gribben

New South Books published VALERIE GRIBBEN’s first novel, Fairytale, in 2003, when she was seventeen. She majored in English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she was a USA Today First Team Academic All-American. As an undergraduate, Valerie founded Healing Words, a volunteer group of students who read to hospital patients and nursing-home residents. She is currently enrolled in the University of Alabama”s medical program, where she created a group for students to share writings about their experiences as medical students and read works by physician-authors. Valerie completed two sequels to Fairytale while in college and medical school — The Emperor’s Realm and The Three Crowns; the three are collected in The Fairytale Trilogy. Bestselling author R. A. Nelson calls The Fairytale Trilogy “fast-paced, imaginative, and delightful, with wonderful characters!” Valerie”s op-ed “Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work, ” about the role fairy tales play in medicine, appeared in The New York Times on June 30, 2011.