Andrea Meyer
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Andrea Meyer | |
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| Born | March 27, 1968 |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara(BA) New York University |
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Harlan Bosmajian (m.2005) |
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Andrea Meyer(born March 27, 1968) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and author of the chick lit novel,Room For Love.
Early life and education
[edit]Meyer grew up inLos Angeles, California.She went to college atUniversity of California, Santa Barbara(UCSB) and spent her junior year studying at theSorbonneinParis.She graduated from UCSB in 1990 with a BA in English with honors.
Career
[edit]Meyer traveled for six months in Europe, eventually getting a job bartending in a wine bar inLondon.She then moved to Paris, where she spent two years teaching English and doing translations. Meyer returned to the United States in 1993 to get her Master's degree in English atNew York University.Upon graduation, she had a series of jobs, assisting playwright, composer and theater directorElizabeth Swadosand a theater and film literary agent at ICM, and then in film production, on such projects as a French-language feature,Tempéte dans un vers d'eau,theDiscovery ChanneldocumentaryNazis: The Occult Conspiracyand theHBOdocumentaryDaughter of Suicide.She also produced and helped program the Avignon/New York Film Festivalin 1998, as well as being a juror at numerous film festivals.
After leaving her job at ICM in 1995, Andrea shared a cab home from the airport with the editor-in-chief ofHamptonsmagazine, who offered her a job writing for the magazine. She wrote her first article aboutTodd Solondz's filmWelcome to the Dollhouse.Andrea subsequently got assignments covering film for such publications as independent film website indieWIRE and eventually became a regular theater critic forThe Resident,a New York weekly. Eventually, she became a regular contributor to such publications asTime OutNew Yorkand theNew York Post.In 2000, Meyer became the Managing Editor of the IFC's print publicationIFC Rant,which was published by indieWIRE. She worked there for two years before leaving to pursue a freelance writing career.
In the spring of 2003, after getting evicted from her apartment and moving into an apartment she bought in theEast Village,Andrea wrote a story for theNew York Post,in which she pretended to look for a roommate as a ploy to meet men. She decided to adapt the article into a novel (about a New York film journalist named Jacquie Stuart who writes an article for which she pretends to look for a roommate as a ploy to meet men). She began writing the book at the home of her friend and writing partner Kerry Eielson in Southwest France, with whom she was completing a screenplay calledThe Alpha Girls.
Back in New York, Meyer worked on her novel while covering film, entertainment and social trends for such publications asTime Out New York,Variety,Interview,The Village Voice,theNew York Post,theDaily NewsandFitnessmagazine and writing celebrity and women's interest stories forGlamour.A regular job emerged writing movie reviews, interviews and a sex and the movies column called Hot & Bothered for IFC.com; and, from December through February, she reported on theSundance Film FestivalforThe Sundance Daily Insider.
Andrea completed the first draft of her novelRoom for Lovedays after she married cinematographer Harlan Bosmajian in 2005. The book was published by St. Martin's Press in 2007.
References
[edit]- Interview by Judyth Piazza on The American Perspective[permanent dead link]
- Interview by The Harvard Westlake School
- Galleycat Siting in NYC
- "Room For Romance",Andrea Meyer,New York Post,May 15, 2003
- "Would You Dare",Glamour
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Official website,Room For Love
- Andrea MeyeratIMDb
- Image,at Book Soup Reading in Los Angeles, California
