Caroline Calloway

Caroline Calloway
Born (1991-12-05) December 5, 1991
Falls Church, Virginia
Nationality American
Education Phillips Exeter Academy
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Occupation Writer

Caroline Calloway (born December 5, 1991) is an American humorist, Instagram personality, and author of the forthcoming memoir "AND WE WERE LIKE."[1] She is known for posting autobiographical stories on her Instagram account "@carolinecalloway," which has over half a million followers.[2]

Born in Falls Church, Virginia,[3] Caroline now lives in London and New York.[4] She is an alumna of Phillips Exeter Academy[5] and a graduate of the University of Cambridge,[6] where she studied History of Art.[7] AND WE WERE LIKE is her first book.[8]

Book Deal

In November 2015 "Publishers Weekly" confirmed that AND WE WERE LIKE had been sold to Penguin Random House in the United Kingdom, Macmillan Publishers in the United States, and Hugo & Cie in France.[9][10]

According to the publishing trade journal, her memoir will chronicle "one American girl's experience at Cambridge University, complete with never-before-told stories of tumultuous romances, glamorous European balls, near academic failure, and the ups and downs of charting a path toward adulthood, expanding on her Instagram memoir."[11]

Caroline Calloway has been represented since 2015 by literary agent Byrd Leavell.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, Alex (February 5, 2016). "Follow the Influencers: Social Media Stars 2016". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  2. ↑ Dwyer, Kate (February 26, 2016). "8 Books That Wouldn't Exist Without Social Media". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  3. ↑ London, Bianca (March 25, 2015). "US student's enchanting Instagram photos reveal fairytale life at Cambridge | Daily Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  4. ↑ Oyler, Lauren (September 2, 2016). "Cambridge's Most Controversial Instagram Celebrity Gets the Last Laugh". Broadly. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  5. ↑ Haskell, Will (June 9, 2015). "This 23-year-old ditched her blog and started writing her memoir on Instagram – now 300,000 people are reading it | Business Insider". Businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  6. ↑ Kleeman, Sophie (June 8, 2015). "This 23-Year-Old Is Writing Her Fairy Tale Memoir Entirely on Instagram". Mic.com. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  7. ↑ Kingkade, Tyler (August 19, 2015). "Meet Caroline Calloway Who Is Writing A Book on Instagram". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  8. ↑ Paul, Crystal (June 9, 2015). "Caroline Calloway's Instagram Memoir Makes Twitter Fiction Look Like A Thing of the Past". Bustle. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  9. ↑ Palmer, Alex (February 5, 2016). "Follow the Influencers: Social Media Stars 2016". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  10. ↑ "Caroline Calloway Deals: Foreign Rights". Publisher's Marketplace. November 18, 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  11. ↑ "Caroline Calloway Deals: Foreign Rights". Publisher's Marketplace. November 18, 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  12. ↑ Pennell, Julie (August 19, 2015). "Meet the 23-Year-Old Whose Fairytale Life (and Instagram Account) Landed Her a Book Agent". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
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