Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is is a teenage book written by Dyan Sheldon. It was first issued in 1999 through the press. In 2004, a Disney movie was created based on this work. The author, Dyan Sheldon, was born in New York and lived in London when the book was published. She has written many teenage novels including, My Wonderful Life, Sofie Pitt-Turnbull Finds America, Janet’s Planet and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. She says, “I write for the young people based on personal experience. I simply do the characters younger. I thought that I would outgrow these events — but they continue to occur”. This story tells the reader about a girl who is used to the world that existed only for her. She always gets what she wants; she is the first among her classmates. However, her life changed very quickly in New Jersey and she realized that her upturned life could not depend only on her popularity. Her selfish and childish behavior was broken by another reality.
From the beginning, the central figure for the story is Mary Elisabeth. She is the main character of the book, known to her friends as Lola. Her parents recently decided to move with from New York City to a little town in New Jersey. That was an important moment in Lola’s life because her usual lifestyle had gone away. Lola devoted herself to being an actress, and she did not want to live in the suburbs where she found out that all around was the same. To overcome the feeling of boredom, she decides to try for the leading role in a school play. Carla Santini, a popular girl at school, also aims for that role.