Mayim Bialik, Actress and Founder of GrokNation, to Pen Book About Growing Up For Teen Girls
New York, NY – Mayim Bialik, actress, writer, neuroscientist, and founder of GrokNation.com, will publish a girl’s guide to growing up with Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. Scheduled for publication in May 2017, Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular, will speak directly to teens about what it means to grow from a girl to a woman biologically, psychologically, and sociologically. Pulling from her own experiences as an actress, scientist, and writer, Mayim discusses navigating everything from first kisses and first periods to rocky friendships, family responsibilities, gender questions, body image issues, and figuring out one’s passion and place in the world.
Mayim commented, “As a scientist who is a public person, it is incredibly gratifying to be able to combine my scientific background with my public face in order to bring Girling Up to young female readers. I’ve been asked to write books which have attempted to harness my public persona, but none have allowed me to utilize my scientific and neuropsychological perspective on the amazing and complex process of growing up as a female in this culture. I hope that my experience, my perspective, and my knowledge base will provide insight into all of the amazing things there are about being female and inspiration to become a unique strong, smart and spectacular female!”
Mayim Bialik is best known as Amy Farrah Fowler on America’s #1 comedy, The Big Bang Theory, a role for which she has received four Emmy nominations and a Critics Choice Award. She also played the lead role of Blossom on the early-1990’s sitcom Blossom. Mayim earned a BS from UCLA in Neuroscience and Hebrew & Jewish Studies, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, also at UCLA. She is the author of Beyond the Slingand Mayim’s Vegan Table. Mayim founded GrokNation.com in 2015 as a platform for her blogging on issues ranging from religious observance to liberal politics to maintaining modesty in Hollywood, and to just being a really normal, imperfect mom trying to make everything run smoothly in a world out of her control. Mayim lives in Los Angeles with her smart, strong, spectacular sons.
You can visit Mayim Bialik at www.groknation.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @MissMayim.
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