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Diablo Cody

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Diablo Cody, aka Brook Busey, grew up in Lemont, IL. After working a series of unfulfilling agency jobs, she moved to Minneapolis and took up writing, acting as Arts Editor for the local independent weekly and creating a popular blog detailing a brief foray into stripping. Her blog attracted the attention of her manager Mason Novick, who encouraged her to write a book based on her experience. That book, "Candy Girl," was published in 2006. Novick also encouraged her to try her hand at screenwriting, and her first attempt, "Juno," was picked up by Fox Searchlight. It was an immediate hit, and garnered her an Oscar for Best Screenplay in 2008.

Since then, she's written and produced a number of hit films and cult hits, including "Jennifer's Body," "Young Adult," "Tully" and "Lisa Frankenstein," as well as the television series "United States of Tara." She also penned the book for the successful Broadway musical "Jagged Little Pill," based on the music of Alanis Morrisette. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Hobby is riding roller coasters. Husband, Daniel Maurio, proposed to her while they were riding a roller coaster.
She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in media studies.
After marriage, she and her husband, Jon Hunt, combined and hyphenated their last names. She went by Brook Busey-Hunt and he was Jon Busey-Hunt. Diablo Cody is a pen name.
Is the only author to have been inducted into Dave's Book Club on Late Show with David Letterman (1993).
Former freelance journalist. When she was living in Minneapolis, she was the associated arts editor for "City Pages", an alternative weekly.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.
If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.
[on screenplay-writing for actresses] The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.

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