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Adrienne Kress is an award-winning, internationally published Canadian writer of Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction. Several of her books are currently attached to major Hollywood studios.

Career
Adrienne Kress is a Canadian actor and author of the internationally published and award winning children's novels Alex and the Ironic Gentleman (Selected by the New York Post as one of its post Harry Potter reading suggestions) and Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate (Scholastic), as well as the Young Adult novels, The Friday Society (Penguin) and Outcast (Diversion Books).

In 2016 she will be releasing two new Middle Grade novels, each the first in an upcoming series: The Explorers Club (Random House) and Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X., the latter in collaboration with The New York Times bestselling author Frank Beddor (set in the same world as his Looking Glass Wars trilogy).

Also in 2016, her essay will appear alongside Margaret Atwood and Mariko Tamaki in the non-fiction anthology The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls (Bedside Press).

Adrienne has also been been featured on InnerSPACE for her work incorporating the martial art of Bartitsu made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle into The Friday Society.

Film Adaptations
According to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, the film rights to Alex and the Ironic Gentleman have been bought by The Weinstein Company.

According to Variety and Quill and Quire, Disney is adapting The Explorers Club with Academy Award Nominee Michael De Luca attached as producer.

Awards

 * Alex and the Ironic Gentleman won the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award in the UK and was nominated for the Red Cedar in Canada.
 * Timothy and the Dragon's Gate was nominated for the Audie (USA) and the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award (Canada).

Novels

 * Kress, Adrienne. The Friday Society (Dial Penguin [Razorbill Canada] 2012)
 * Kress, Adrienne. Outcast (Diversion Books, 2013)
 * Kress, Adrienne. The Explorers Club (Delacorte Random House, 2016)
 * Kress, Adrienne. Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X. (Automatic Publishing, 2016)

Alex and the Ironic Gentleman series

 * Kress, Adrienne. Alex and the Ironic Gentleman (Weinstein Books [Scholastic UK/Canada] 2007)
 * Kress, Adrienne. Timothy and the Dragon's Gate (Weinstein Books [Scholastic UK/Canada] 2008)

Short Fiction

 * Kress, Adrienne. "The Clockwork Corset", Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances [edited by Trisha Telep] (Running Press Kids, 2011)

Non-Fiction

 * Kress, Adrienne. "The Inevitable Decline of Decadence", The Girl Who Was on Fire - Movie Edition [edited by Leah Wilson] (Smart Pop Books, 2012)
 * Kress, Adrienne. "The Emergence of YA", The Complete Guide to Writing for Young Adults [edited by Gabrielle Harbowy] (Dragon Moon Press, 2014)
 * Kress, Adrienne. "I'm Your Biggest Fan", The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls [edited by Hope Nicholson] (Bedside Press, 2016)