Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Universal Pictures Wins Bidding War for Flight Attendant's Debut Novel (Exclusive)
hollywoodreporter.comLast week, a onetime flight attendantlanded a seven-figure book deal -- this week, she nabbed a seven-figure film one. Screen rights to T.J.
Newman’s first thriller,Falling, landed with Universal Pictures following a heated bidding war. Per one well-placed source, the project, which has been described as "Speed at 35,000 feet," sold for a whopping $1.5 million.
Newman is said to have written her debut novel, the first in a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press, on the backs of airplane napkins and on iPads during her former red-eye route.
It centers on a crowdedflight from New York to L.A., with 140-plus passengers who don't know that their pilot's family was kidnapped a half-hour before takeoff.
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