Shelby Van Pelt

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Shelby Van Pelt is an American writer. She wrote the novel ''Remarkably Bright Creatures'' (2022)''.'' It has been on the ''New York Times'' hardcover fiction best-seller list multiple times. It was her debut novel.

She was awarded the 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize and $3000 by the Writer's Center for ''Remarkably Bright Creatures''.

''Remarkably Bright Creatures'' is a story of the friendship between Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus, and Tova, a widow who cleans at the aquarium where Marcellus lives.

Van Pelt grew up in Tacoma, Washington. Provided by Wikipedia