Books By Brendan Halpin
Brendan Halpin: Dear Catastrophe Waitress: A Novel
A love story about two people who were the subjects of hit breakup songs. Buy at bn.com Find it at your local independent bookstore.Brendan Halpin: Donorboy: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards))
After the deaths of her two moms, 14-year-old Rosalind goes to live with her biological father, the sperm donor she never met. Complications ensue. Buy at bn.com. Find it at your local independent bookstore.Brendan Halpin: Forever Changes
Love, (The emotion and the band), calculus, friendship, gatorade, mentors, parties, doomed crushes, doomed people, and of course, the laughter and tears you've come to expect from the Halpin brand. This book has it all, and I think it's the best one I've ever written. For young adults, but also suitable for older adults who think they can handle it. Buy at bn.com Find it at your local independent bookstore.Brendan Halpin: How Ya Like Me Now
My first official young adult novel! It's about how Eddie from the suburbs comes to live with his cousin Alex in the city when his mom goes into rehab. It's about homework, who likes who, and how to build a new life after the old one falls apart. Buy it at bn.com Find it at your local independent bookstore.Brendan Halpin: I Can See Clearly Now: A Novel
Sex, drugs, and educational cartoons in 1972. Can four young songwriters and a mentor with mixed motives change the world, or at least Saturday Morning TV? Buy at bn.com Find it at your local independent bookstore.Brendan Halpin: It Takes a Worried Man: A Memoir
Funniest book about cancer ever! Out of Print! Email me if you'd like to get a copy.Brendan Halpin: Long Way Back: A Novel
Love, faith, and the amazing healing power of punk rock. Buy it at bn.com. Find it at your local independent bookstore.Brendan Halpin: Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story
A funny, profane look at what it's really like to be a teacher. Buy it at bn.com Find it at your local independent bookstore.
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Biography
I'm the author of the novels Forever Changes, How Ya Like Me Now, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Long Way Back and Donorboy, as well as the memoirs Losing My Faculties and It Takes a Worried Man. All are published by Villard.
I'm also the author of How Ya Like Me Now and Forever Changes, both novels for young adults. Both are published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (Forever Changes is coming later in 2008)
Before I became a full-time writer, I was a high school English teacher for ten years.
I grew up in Cincinnati, but also lived in Philadelphia, Edinburgh, and Taipei. I now live in Boston with my wife and our blended family: 3 kids and a dog.
Interests
Ramones, Husker Du, Minutemen, Prince, New Pornographers, teaching, Belle and Sebastian, Peter Jackson, Stephen King, Shakespeare, Connie Willis, The White Stripes, Wilco, Johnny Cash, religion, School of Rock, The Underground Garage, Public Education, Harry Potter, vegetarian cooking, vegetarian eating, guitar, muppets, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Elvis Presley, George Romero, fudge.
