The Devil Wears Prada (novel)

The Devil Wears Prada
AuthorLauren Weisberger
Cover artist
  • Evan Gaffney (design)
  • Nick Dewar (illustration)
LanguageEnglish
GenreChick lit
PublishedFebruary 6, 2003 (Broadway Books)
Publication placeUS, UK, France
Media typePrint (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages360
ISBN0-7679-1476-7
OCLC55053886

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor, a job that becomes nightmarish as she struggles to keep up with her boss's grueling schedule and demeaning demands. It spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list and became the basis for the 2006 film of the same name, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt. The novel is considered by many to be an example of the "chick lit" genre.[1][2]

Upon its publication The Devil Wears Prada attracted attention because of its author's background. Before writing the novel, Weisberger had worked as a personal assistant for American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, much like the novel's protagonist works for a powerful fashion magazine editor, who also happens to be British like Wintour. Reviewers considered the book a roman à clef, offering insider perspectives on Wintour and other Vogue staff.[3][4]

A sequel, Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, was published in 2013, while a third novel, When Life Gives You Lululemons, was published in 2018.[5][6]

  1. ^ Memmott, Carol (June 21, 2006). "Chick lit, for better or worse, is here to stay". USA Today. Retrieved May 5, 2014. Industry observers and booksellers say a glut of pedestrian chick lit has new fans returning to proven, now-classic novels such as Nanny Diaries (2002), Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes (2004) and The Devil Wears Prada.
  2. ^ Wells, Juliette (2006). "Chapter 3: Mothers of Chick Lit? Women Writers, Readers and Literary History". In Ferriss, Suzanne & Young, Malloy (eds.). Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 9780415975025. Retrieved May 5, 2014. Heroines' professional identities and workday experiences are certainly important to the texture of chick-lit novels, and sometimes central to their plot: Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada, for instance, is built around the young heroine's relationship with her fashion-magazine boss ...
  3. ^ Schwarzbaum, Lisa (June 21, 2006). "The Devil Wears Prada". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 10, 2019. Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the hiss-and-tell roman à clef best-seller on which the picture is based, was herself an assistant to Wintour
  4. ^ Gilbert, Sophie (June 3, 2013). "Lauren Weisberger's 'Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns'". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 10, 2019. Clearly, writing a roman à clef can be much more lucrative than working as an assistant at Condé Nast.
  5. ^ "'The Devil Wears Prada' is getting a sequel!— Exclusive". Entertainment Weekly. May 31, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  6. ^ "Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns Gets A Very Red Cover". Cinema Blend. March 17, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2014.

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