Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott, who has published more than twenty books under her own name as well as pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode, recently launched film and television production company Mildred’s Moving Picture Show. While her novels Pure and Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders were a New York Times Notable Books of the Year, her work has been optioned by Fox2000, Nickelodeon/Paramount, Warner Brothers, Amazon, and Lionsgate. Her story “Five Secrets” is in development with Apple Original Films and Chernin, screenplay written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. Collaborations with her son Finneas Scott are currently in development at Netflix with Shawn Levy attached to direct and at Ryan Reynolds’ company Maximum Effort at Fox. Julianna’s story “The Hider” landed at Universal with Robert Downey Jr.’s production company, Team Downey. Her story “Baggage Claim” is the first project to be chosen for development at Selena Gomez’s new production company Wondermind.  Her novel Which Brings Me To You (co-written with Steve Almond) with BCDF directed by Peter Hutchings, starring Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff  debuted at #1 on Hulu. Other projects are in development at Disney+, MGM, and Sony to name a few. Many of her short stories in development are included in her collection I’d Really Prefer Not to be Here with You & Other Stories (Blackstone).

There are over one hundred foreign editions of Julianna’s novels published or forthcoming overseas. Baggott’s work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Modern Love column, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, Glamour, Real Simple, Best Creative Nonfiction, Best American Poetry, and has been read on NPR’s Here and Now, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered. Her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized.

Baggott’s first novel was the national bestseller Girl Talk, quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller, The Miss America Family, and The Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She then co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews); click here to see the trailer to the feature film adaptation.

Her Bridget Asher novels, published by Bantam Dell at Random House, include All of Us and Everything, listed in “Best New Books” in People magazine (2015), The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, The Pretend Wife, and My Husband’s Sweethearts.

She’s published award-winning novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode as well as her own name. Her seven novels for younger readers include, most notably, The Anybodies trilogy, which was a People Magazine summer reading pick, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girl’s Life Top Ten, a Booksense selection. Other titles include The Slippery Map, The Ever Breath, and the prequel to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. For two years, Bode was a recurring personality on XM Sirius Radio. Julianna’s Boston Red Sox novel The Prince of Fenway Park (HarperCollins) made many state reading lists for young readers.

Baggott has published four collections of poetry – Instructions: Abject & Fuming, This Country of Mothers, Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees, and Lizzie Borden in Love. Her poems have appeared in some of the most venerable literary publications in the country, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry (2001, 2011, and 2012). 

Baggott and her husband and business partner, David Scott, have four children. Her oldest daughter is the sculptor Phoebe Scott. Her son, Finneas Scott, has worked as a writer and is a producing partner on many Mildred’s Moving Picture Show projects, most notably on “Backwards,” currently in development with Netflix.

Baggott is repped by Sobel Weber for literary work, WME and 3 Arts for film and television.

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