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Lisi Harrison
Harrison at the 2023 WonderCon
Harrison at the 2023 WonderCon
BornElyse E. Gottlieb
(1970-07-29) July 29, 1970 (age 53)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1]
Pen nameLisi Harrison
OccupationNovelist
Period2004-present
GenreFiction
Children2 [2]
Website
lisiharrison.com

Elyse E. "Lisi" Harrison (née Gottlieb; born on July 29, 1970) is a Canadian novelist of young adult fiction, known for the three series The Clique, Alphas and Monster High.[1][3]

Early life

Harrison was born Elyse E. Gottlieb and raised in Toronto, Ontario by her parents Ken and Shaila Gottlieb, along with a brother and a sister. She attended a Hebrew elementary school, then she attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute public high school. After graduating high school, she went to McGill University as a film major, but transferred after two years to study writing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Harrison graduated with a BFA in creative writing.[1]

Career

Harrison worked for 12 years at MTV in New York City. She became the Senior Director of Development for development of shows for the network.[2] Harrison said, "I learned what appeals to teens. I learned how to hold someone's attention. I learned that everyone wants to fit in and be accepted, no matter how old they are," of her experience while working at MTV.[4] Her experience at the network was the inspiration for her bestselling series The Clique, because it reminded her of middle school life. She started writing the first two novels in the series while working at MTV so that she would still have a job if her writing career didn't work out. After selling over 9 million copies in her "Clique" series, Harrison quit her MTV job in June 2004 and focused on her writing career.[1][2]

She has written three separate young adult book series: The Clique, Alphas, and Monster High. The Clique series has 21 books, including a prequel, a summer collection and a dictionary-style book called The Cliquetionary. The Summer Collection is a collection of five individual books each character's summer vacation. The Alphas series contains four books, and the Monster High series also contains four books.

Harrison's first adult series, The Dirty Book Club, was released out October 10, 2017.

Personal life

Harrison is married to Kevin Harrison with whom she has two children. lThe family lives in Laguna Beach, California.[1][2]

Works

The Clique series

Alphas series

Monster High series

Other

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "About". lisiharrison.com. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Clay, Joanna (15 April 2011). "Hard to write in beautiful Laguna, but write she does". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Poppy Series - Pick a Poppy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
  4. ^ "Interview with Lisi Harrison | Book Divas". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2012-10-10.

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