Jennifer Solow
Jennifer Solow is the author of
THE ARISTOBRATS
(Sourcebooks, Jabberwocky, September 1, 2010) – about four best friends who’ve finally made it the very top of the populadder at Wallingford Academy only to be handed an assignment that threatens to ruin everything (even their friendship).
Like her characters, Jennifer once attended an exclusive private school where her spot on the populadder waivered depending on whatever haircut she had at the time (long: good, short: not so good) and where the idea for this book began.
Soon after, Jennifer moved to Manhattan, where she was an advertising creative director, wore a lot of cool clothes, and worked with a few famous guys named Spike. She was stuck in a meeting in downtown Manhattan on 9/11 when she decided to become a writer. Her first novel,
The Booster
, became a national bestseller.
She now lives in Mill Valley with her husband and two tweenagers. (And no, she never borrows anything they say word-for-word because that would be a terrible thing for a mother to do!)
She is working on the next Aristobrats: Stay Pretty, Wallingford!?
“The secret was pretty simple — wearing the right clothes wasn’t as important as how you felt in them. Being beautiful was about what you did with what you had. Popularity was like that too — it was all about attitude. You had to picture who you wanted to be and then just imagine that’s who you already were.”