Amanda Brown is an American

United States

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 novelist who wrote the book Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt...

which was the basis for the movie and musical of the same name

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt...

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Biography

Born to Jack E. Brown, a successful lawyer, and Suzanne J. Brown, an art gallery owner, Amanda graduated from Arizona State University

Arizona State University

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 in 1993. She then proceeded to study at Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School

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 (never actually receiving a law degree), where she compiled funny letters and stories based on her experiences into a first manuscript that would become Legally Blonde.

Since the success of the 2001 movie, she has released her second book, Family Trust, which has also been optioned for a film. Currently she lives with her husband and daughters in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. Amanda's novel School of Fortune is currently being optioned for a film starring Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series...

, Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

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 and Justin Long

Justin Long

Justin Jacob Long is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Galaxy Quest, Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Live Free or Die Hard, He's Just Not That into You, Drag Me to Hell, and Youth in Revolt, and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a...

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