Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri to two community-college professors - her mother taught reading; her father, film. Flynn's 2006 debut novel, the literary mystery Sharp Objects, was an Edgar Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain's Dagger Awards - the first book ever to win multiple Daggers in one year. Flynn's second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller Dark Places, was a New Yorker Reviewers' Favorite.

Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri to two community-college professors - her mother taught reading; her father, film. Flynn's 2006 debut novel, the literary mystery Sharp Objects, was an Edgar Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain's Dagger Awards - the first book ever to win multiple Daggers in one year. Flynn's second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller Dark Places, was a New Yorker Reviewers' Favorite. See less