Talk:E. Lockhart

Identity

Lockhart

VIAF=240183688 needs merge -P64 2015-05-06 Jenkins (only one template {{authority control}} is permitted; this one is in the article)

No, vice versa.

Is Emily Jenkins of "flea and hippo" the same person? If so then VIAF 60511763 needs merge.

Yes, the same person, but no merge. -P64 2015-05-06

--P64 (talk) 18:49, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

That is "Bea and Haha", board books by this Emily Jenkins and Tomek Bogacki (2006, now in the list of E. Lockhart#Works). VIAF 60511763 is an actress, evidently active in 1984 to whom LC attributes some Bea and Haha books to her ( and Browse the LC Online Catalog).

This Emily Jenkins was 17 in 1984 and we say, "In high school she attended summer drama schools at Northwestern University and the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis." So they may be one person. But the reported 1984 actress, or maybe author of Creating Theater, is likely to be http://www.emilyjenkins.co.uk Shakespeare Consultant, Theatre Director & Writer.

WorldCat attributes only Creating Theater (visual) to that Emily Jenkins (actress). -P64 17:23

--P64 (talk) 17:10, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

LC catalog records for Bea and Haha need correction.

This article now carries template {{Authority control}} for E. Lockhart, who writes primarily for teenage girls, also for adults. The personal redirect Emily JenkinsEmily Jenkins carries the other, for her real-name identity as writer for younger children --mainly picture book texts, if i glance correctly. --P64 (talk) 17:38, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi, this is E. Lockhart/Emily Jenkins. I am NOT the same person as the UK-based actress Emily Jenkins. I did write the Bea and Haha books.

I would prefer not to be identified as writing primarily for teenage girls as that's a sexist way of defining an audience that has not been measured. "Young adults" would be accruate. MerceCat (talk) 17:35, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Orphaned references in E. Lockhart

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of E. Lockhart's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "about":

• From Michael L. Printz Award: "The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association. (ALA). Retrieved 2012-04-20.
• From Library of Congress: "Fascinating Facts – About the Library". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2013-10-14.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 20:44, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

fixed 10 minutes later --P64 (talk) 17:19, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Resolved

Writer for adults

In the lead we say "children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction". We say nothing about writing for adults in the body of the article, except by allusion to her 1998 PhD dissertation.

Our list of works is limited to books. We list only two for adults, a 1998 collection of essays and a 2002 novel, E. Lockhart#Adult books by Emily Jenkins. Those were her second and fourth books --first and third as solo author-- and only one is fiction. The list of works is generally long enough that readers must suppose it complete. Is it complete for books? Does she write for adults otherwise, such as book reviews (nonfiction) or short stories?

--P64 (talk) 18:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi, this is Emily Jenkins aka E. Lockhart. I wrote two books for adults in the 1990s. I write book reviews for adults. MerceCat (talk) 17:36, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

requesting corrections, from E. Lockhart/Emily Jenkins about this page

Hi, this is E. Lockhart/Emily Jenkins. I am requesting that a couple errors be fixed on my page.

1. The photo currently in use says it is from 2022. It is in fact a very ugly photo from 2012. The photo on my website emilylockhart.com or on my instagram elockhartbooks would be more appropriate and can be dated 2025.

2. "She is known best for the Ruby Oliver quartet (which begins with The Boyfriend List), The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and We Were Liars." -- this is not too accurate. More accurate would be: "She is known best for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and We Were Liars."

3. A more current list of my children's books can be found at emilyjenkins.com Wikipedia's list stops at 2016 and I am still publishing now, in 2025.

4. The Upside-Down Magic series is missing books 7 and 8.

5. You might want to include Prime Video's adaptation of We Were Liars - a TV show.

Thank you so much!

/Emily MerceCat (talk) 17:48, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: Please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. NotJamestack (talk) 23:51, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

1. Here is a current photo from my site

https://www.emilylockhart.com/about-e

and from Deadline:

https://deadline.com/2025/06/we-were-liars-author-e-lockhart-signs-verve-1236446269/

2. evidence that We Were Liars (not The Boyfriend List) is what I am best known for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Liars

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/books/booktok-tiktok-video.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/books/review/family-of-liars-we-were-liars-e-lockhart.html

3. list of my books for children, including those published after 2016

emilyjenkins.com

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/emily%20jenkins

4. The publisher's official list of Upside-Down Magic books (including 7 and 8)

https://kids.scholastic.com/content/kids64/en/books/upside-down-magic/books.html

5. Prime video series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Liars_(TV_series)

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/We-Were-Liars/0R8IXK40FRFIHB00YGLZCEJZ0B

Let me know what else you need, if you do.

/Emily MerceCat (talk) 00:09, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Partly done. I implemented the 2nd request.

For the first request, I would suggest uploading the image to Wikimedia Commons, then editing it into the article, or adding the link here if you don't want to edit per the COI policy. NotJamestack (talk) 01:58, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

For #1 above, here is the link to the photo. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Author_E._Lockhart_in_2025.jpg

Author E. Lockhart in 2025

For requests 2, 3 and 4 -- what is the additional evidence you need in order to make the Wikipedia page accurate?

This may help for #5.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/books/review/e-lockhart-we-were-liars-we-fell-apart.html

Thank you.

/E. Lockhart MerceCat (talk) 21:30, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

I have implemented the 1st request. Thanks! NotJamestack (talk) 21:57, 5 November 2025 (UTC)