
Amanda Stern is the author of 13 books: Little Panic: Dispatches From an Anxious Life; The Long Haul, and 11 books for kids written under the pseudonyms Fiona Rosenbloom and AJ Stern. One of those books, "You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!" is now a Netflix movie starring Adam Sandler. She's working on her next novel and lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Busy.

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