He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time—when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers— making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics.
Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies are f*@$ing terrible, but he and Earl don’t make them for other people.
Until Rachel.
Rachel has leukemia, and Greg’s mom gets the genius idea that Greg should befriend her. Against his better judgment and despite his extreme awkwardness, he does. When Rachel decides to stop treatment, Greg and Earl make her a movie, and Greg must abandon invisibility and make a stand.
It’s a hilarious, outrageous, and truthful look at death and high school by a prodigiously talented debut author.
He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time—when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers— making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics.
Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies are f*@$ing terrible, but he and Earl don’t make them for other people.
Until Rachel.
Rachel has leukemia, and Greg’s mom gets the genius idea that Greg should befriend her. Against his better judgment and despite his extreme awkwardness, he does. When Rachel decides to stop treatment, Greg and Earl make her a movie, and Greg must abandon invisibility and make a stand.
It’s a hilarious, outrageous, and truthful look at death and high school by a prodigiously talented debut author.
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Young adult literature gained a distinctively irreverent voice with the release of the breakout novel Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Jesse Andrews transitioned from debut novelist to acclaimed screenwriter by pairing razor-sharp humor with candid explorations of adolescence, music, and grief across fiction and film.
Born on September 15, 1982, and raised in a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andrews attended Schenley High School, where he learned jazz, before earning a degree in history of art and architecture from Harvard University in 2004. Prior to establishing his writing career, he worked as a musician and a German youth hostel receptionist. His literary career took off with his debut young adult novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, published by Amulet Books in 2012. The book became a New York Times bestseller, and Andrews adapted his own novel into the feature film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, produced by Indian Paintbrush and Fox Searchlight and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Released in 2015, the film adaptation won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Following his debut success, Andrews published his second novel, The Haters, with Amulet Books in 2016, drawing on his musical background to tell the story of teenage bandmates on an improvised road trip. In 2018, he released his third novel, Munmun, also through Amulet Books. Alongside his prose fiction, Andrews expanded his screenwriting career, writing the screenplay for MGM's 2018 feature film Every Day, directed by Michael Sucsy and adapted from David Levithan's novel. He co-wrote the screenplay for Pixar's animated feature film Luca, released in 2021 and directed by Enrico Casarosa with co-writer Mike Jones, and has contributed to screenplays for Pixar projects such as Hoppers. Today, Andrews lives in the Bay Area of California.
Andrews is known for an unvarnished, comedy-infused approach to young adult fiction that eschews sentimental tropes. His characters often grapple with heavy life events—such as terminal illness, artistic self-doubt, or structural social inequality—using self-deprecating humor, awkward dialogue, and meta-narrative commentary. Across novels like Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The Haters, Andrews explores adolescent friendships, creative obsession, and the messy reality of coming of age.
2 books in catalog
Young adult literature gained a distinctively irreverent voice with the release of the breakout novel Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Jesse Andrews transitioned from debut novelist to acclaimed screenwriter by pairing razor-sharp humor with candid explorations of adolescence, music, and grief across fiction and film.
Born on September 15, 1982, and raised in a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andrews attended Schenley High School, where he learned jazz, before earning a degree in history of art and architecture from Harvard University in 2004. Prior to establishing his writing career, he worked as a musician and a German youth hostel receptionist. His literary career took off with his debut young adult novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, published by Amulet Books in 2012. The book became a New York Times bestseller, and Andrews adapted his own novel into the feature film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, produced by Indian Paintbrush and Fox Searchlight and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Released in 2015, the film adaptation won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Following his debut success, Andrews published his second novel, The Haters, with Amulet Books in 2016, drawing on his musical background to tell the story of teenage bandmates on an improvised road trip. In 2018, he released his third novel, Munmun, also through Amulet Books. Alongside his prose fiction, Andrews expanded his screenwriting career, writing the screenplay for MGM's 2018 feature film Every Day, directed by Michael Sucsy and adapted from David Levithan's novel. He co-wrote the screenplay for Pixar's animated feature film Luca, released in 2021 and directed by Enrico Casarosa with co-writer Mike Jones, and has contributed to screenplays for Pixar projects such as Hoppers. Today, Andrews lives in the Bay Area of California.
Andrews is known for an unvarnished, comedy-infused approach to young adult fiction that eschews sentimental tropes. His characters often grapple with heavy life events—such as terminal illness, artistic self-doubt, or structural social inequality—using self-deprecating humor, awkward dialogue, and meta-narrative commentary. Across novels like Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The Haters, Andrews explores adolescent friendships, creative obsession, and the messy reality of coming of age.
