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Ali Benjamin
Ali Benjamin is an American author of fiction for young readers and adults, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her first novel, The Thing About Jellyfish (2015), in which a girl convinces herself that a jellyfish sting explains her former friend's drowning, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a New York Times bestseller. She followed it with The Next Great Paulie Fink (2019) and The Smash-Up (2021), a novel for adults that reworks Edith Wharton's Ethan...