title: Dyan Sheldon
text: # Dyan Sheldon
  
  Dyan Sheldon is an American novelist, who has written for adults, children and young adults. Originally from Brooklyn, she resides in London and has written a number of young adult novels as well as many picture books in a variety of genres. Her young adult science-fiction novel Perfect was published under the name "D. M. Quintano", as it was a departure from her usual style.
  
  Dyan Sheldon's novel Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, a #1 New York Times bestseller, was made into a movie of the same name by Disney in 2004, starring Lindsay Lohan.
  
  ## Selected bibliography
  
  ### Adult novels
  
  * Victim of Love (1982)
  * Dreams of an Average Man (1985)
  * My Life as a Whale (1992)
  
  ### Young adult novels
  
  * You Can Never Go Home Again (1993)
  * Save The Last Dance For Me (1993)
  * Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (1999)
  * And Baby Makes Two (2000)
  * My Perfect Life (2002)
  * Planet Janet (2003)
  * Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America (2005)
  * Perfect (as D. M. Quintano) (2005)
  * I Conquer Britain (2006)
  * My Worst Best Friend (2010)
  * Confessions of a Hollywood Star (2005)
  * Away for the weekend (2011)
  * Tall, Thin and Blonde (2012)
  * More than one way to be a girl (2017)
  
  ### Children's novels
  
  * Harry and Chicken (1990)
  * My Brother Is a Visitor from Another Planet (1992)
  * Only Binky (1993)
  * Bad Place for a Bus Stop (1994)
  * Lizzie and Charley Go Shopping (1999)
  * Undercover Angel (2000)
  * The Difficulties of Keeping Time (2008)
  
  ### Picture books
  
  * The Whales' Song (1991)
  * Under the Moon (1994) (alternative title, The Garden)
  * Unicorn Dreams (1997) (alternative title, Unicorn City)
  * The Last Angel (2003)
  * Vampire Across the Way (2004)
  