Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Aside from being an award-winning novelist, Melina Marchetta is also a screenwriter. She wrote the screenplay for the film version of her novel Looking for Alibrandi, for which she won numerous awards.
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Until her literary career really took off in 2006, Marchetta taught high school English and history while writing in her free time.
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Marchetta dropped out of school in tenth grade to work for a bank. She also went on to work for an Australian travel company and traveled the world before pursuing her teaching degree.
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