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Shauna Cross is an American author, screenwriter, and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem" and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel Derby Girl, a fictionalized version of her experiences in the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league. In 2009, she wrote a film adaption of the novel ...
- English
- Screenwriter, novelist
- American
0-8050-8023-6. Derby Girl is a 2007 novel by Shauna Cross. It tells the story of Bliss Cavendar, a girl from the fictional town of Bodeen, Texas, whose mother wants her to compete in beauty pageants, and seeks escape in the world of roller derby. The book was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and a New York Public ...
- 240pp
- Henry Holt and Co.
- September 4, 2007
- Shauna Cross
Whip It is a 2009 American sports comedy drama film co-produced and directed by Drew Barrymore from a screenplay by Shauna Cross, based on her 2007 novel Derby Girl. It stars Elliot Page [a] as a teenage girl from the fictional town of Bodeen, Texas, who joins a roller derby team. The film also stars Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Barrymore ...
- $16.6 million
- The Section Quartet
- $15 million
- Drew Barrymore, Barry Mendel
Shauna Cross is the author of Derby Girl, named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and Quick Pick for Young Adults, a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. It is now a major motion picture, Whip It, directed by Drew Barrymore. Cross is a screenwriter and a member of the Los Angeles Derby Dolls roller derby league. She ...
Sep 1, 2007 · 8 books38 followers. Follow. Shauna Cross is a roller derby athlete, author of Derby Girl, and screenwriter of Whip It!. Her roller derby pseudonym is "Maggie Mayhem," skating for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls. The book, and film, are fictionalized accounts of an experience skating with the Texas Rollergirls. She is presently working on a film ...
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Jun 19, 2008 · Shauna Cross is inspired by all the “girl writers” working these days: “It’s completely badass,” she says. “I root for the girls. I’m a total girl’s girl.”. It’s no wonder ...
Jan 23, 2010 · Author Shauna Cross talks about her derby film Most times, nine times out of 10 I'd say, if a book is optioned by a production company or a studio, a different writer will be brought in to adapt ...
