Aline Brosh McKenna Biography

Fast Facts

• Established the Aline Brosh McKenna Creative Writing Fund at Harvard to support aspiring writers
• Was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best screenplay for "The Devil Wears Prada․"
• Graduated from Harvard, where she was a staff writer for the Harvard Crimson, with a degree in literature in 1989
• Began her career as a freelance magazine writer before becoming interested in screenwriting
• Published her first book "The Coed's Companion," which she co-wrote with her Harvard roommate Stacie Lipp, in 1990
• Quote: "Being funny means you're honest, almost to the point of transgression - you're saying the thing that isn't supposed to be said․"
• Quote: "Every writer that I know has had someone who said to them that you belong here and you deserve to be doing this kind of work․ They've all had a meaningful moment where someone intervened and said, 'You are worthy of being a writer․'"
• Best known as the screenwriter of "The Devil Wears Prada," "27 Dresses" and "We Bought a Zoo․"