Ruta Sepetys
Ruta Sepetys
19.11.1967 (56 years) (Detroit, Michigan, U.S.)
Ruta Sepetys (also known as Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is a #1 New York Times bestseller, international bestseller, and winner of the Carnegie Medal She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament. Her work is published in over fifty countries and thirty languages and is currently in development for two films.