Gitty Daneshvari

Daneshvari was born in Los Angeles, California on June 20, 1978, to an Iranian father and an American mother.[1]

Growing up, Daneshvari developed into a very "chatty" child. She would constantly bombard her parents and sister with comments, questions, and general ramblings. Finally, when her chatterbox nature had evolved to the point where she had nobody to listen to anymore, she turned to writing down her thoughts.[2] She wrote her first story when she was 9 on a typewriter, of which her sister quoted that it was "terrible". Undeterred, Daneshvari wrote short stories by hand in a notebook from the ages of 18 to 22.[3] Daneshvari later gained a job in the film industry in her home city, but later quit her job at age 26–27 in order to pursue writing full-time.[3]

Gitty's childhood ambitions included becoming an actress like Marilyn Monroe (which was thwarted due to stage fright) or becoming a lawyer in New York City.[4]

Daneshvari suffered from multiple different phobias during her youth, including fears of spiders and alien abduction.[2] These fears of hers later went on to become inspiration for her School of Fear series.

Becoming known as an average child, the kind who never made much of a mark academically, athletically, or socially, Gitty had some difficulty in her early school years.[5] In the fifth grade, Daneshvari was denied from her school's Gifted and Talented program, one of only five students in her twenty five-person class to not gain admission to the program (two of which did not speak English as a first language). Daneshvari utilized this experience as influence for another one of her book series, The League of Unexceptional Children.[6]

Daneshvari lives between Madrid, Spain and New York City. She also owns a French Bulldog named Marvin and previously owned an English Bulldog named Harriet.[2]

Daneshvari has sold over 5 million books worldwide.[2]

The Makedown (2009)

School of Fear (2009)

School of Fear: Class Is Not Dismissed! (2010)

School of Fear: The Final Exam (2011)

Monster High Ghoulfriends: Ghoulfriends Forever (2012)

Monster High Ghoulfriends: Ghoulfriends Just Want to Have Fun (2013)

Monster High Ghoulfriends: Who's That Ghoulfriend? (2013)

Monster High Ghoulfriends: Ghoulfriends Til The End (2014)

Monster High Ghoulfriends: The Ghoul-It-Yourself Book (2014)

The League of Unexceptional Children (2015)

The League of Unexceptional Children: Get Smart-ish (2016)

The League of Unexceptional Children: The Kids Who Knew Too Little (2017)