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Shelby Van Pelt is an American writer. She wrote the novel Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022).[1] It has been on the New York Times hardcover fiction best-seller list multiple times.[1] It was her debut novel.
She was awarded the 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize and $3000 by the Writer's Center for Remarkably Bright Creatures.[2]
Remarkably Bright Creatures is a story of the friendship between Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus, and Tova, a widow who cleans at the aquarium where Marcellus lives.[1]
Van Pelt grew up in Tacoma, Washington.[3]
- ^ a b c Alter, Alexandra (2023-12-30). "How 'That Octopus Book' Won Over More Than a Million Readers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ "First Novel Prize - The Writer's Center". The Writer's Center - Supporting writers and everyone who wants to write. 2023-06-20. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ "'Remarkably Bright Creatures' author Shelby Van Pelt on growing up in Tacoma, 'stuckness' and more". The Seattle Times. 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2024-09-01.