Maya Van Wagenen

Maya Van Wagenen is an American author born in 1998, best known for her New York Times bestselling memoir Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (2014), which chronicles her eighth-grade social experiment following a 1950s popularity guide and won the American Library Association's YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, making her the youngest recipient and first memoirist to earn it.Goodreads. Her second book, the novel Chronically Dolores (2024), inspired by her experiences with a chronic illness, won the Schneider Family Book Award.Penguin Random House