Jay Asher

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Jay Asher is an American young adult novelist best known for writing the bestselling and controversial teen suicide-themed novel "Thirteen Reasons Why."

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Jay Asher canonical 2

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novelist
person
adaptedAs 13 Reasons Why (TV series) NERFINISHED
author Jay Asher NERFINISHED
Jay Asher NERFINISHED
Jay Asher NERFINISHED
awardReceived Association of Booksellers for Children Best Books for Children NERFINISHED
California Book Award (Silver Medal for Young Adult Literature) NERFINISHED
Kiriyama Prize (Notable Book) NERFINISHED
basedOn Thirteen Reasons Why NERFINISHED
coAuthor Carolyn Mackler NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
countryOfOrigin United States of America
dateOfBirth 1975-09-30
educatedAt California Polytechnic State University NERFINISHED
Cuesta College NERFINISHED
familyName Asher NERFINISHED
genre realistic fiction
young adult fiction
young adult fiction
young adult fiction
givenName Jay NERFINISHED
hasSubjectOfControversy allegations of sexual harassment
depiction of teen suicide in Thirteen Reasons Why
hasWritten The Future of Us NERFINISHED
Thirteen Reasons Why NERFINISHED
What Light NERFINISHED
language English
languageOfWorkOrName English
literaryMovement contemporary young adult literature
mainTheme teen suicide
name Jay Asher NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableFor writing the novel Thirteen Reasons Why
notableWork The Future of Us NERFINISHED
Thirteen Reasons Why NERFINISHED
What Light NERFINISHED
occupation children's writer
novelist
writer
young adult novelist
placeOfBirth Arcadia, California, United States NERFINISHED
publicationDate 2007
residence California, United States
sexOrGender male
workPeriod 21st century

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Jay Asher
Description of subject: Jay Asher is an American young adult novelist best known for writing the bestselling and controversial teen suicide-themed novel "Thirteen Reasons Why."

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Brian Yorkey author Jay Asher
subject surface form: Thirteen Reasons Why