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Becky Albertalli

American
Born 1982
Rebecca Albertalli is an American author of young adult fiction and a former psychologist. **She is best known for her 2015 debut novel, *Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda***, which was adapted into the 2018 film Love, Simon and inspired the spin-off television series Love, Victor. She has since published additional young adult novels as well as the 2020 novella Love, Creekwood, for which she has donated all proceeds to The Trevor Project.
Albertalli's recent work belongs to the Imogenverse series, which so far comprises Imogen, Obviously (2023) and Amelia, If Only (2025). No completion of the series has been announced.
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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Becky Albertalli's debut young adult novel follows Simon Spier, a closeted gay sixteen-year-old whose secret email correspondence with a classmate named Blue is weaponized against him by a blackmailer — a premise that earned the book the American Library Association's William C. Morris Award, a place on the National Book Award Longlist, and a celebrated film adaptation. Kirkus Reviews called it "funny, moving and emotionally wise," and the novel stands as one of the most decorated YA debuts of the past decade.

Reviewed Feb 21, 2026

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