Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn is the author of the runaway hit Gone Girl, an international sensation that has spent more than 75 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Her work has been published in 40 languages, and adapted for film multiple times. The film adaptation of Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike was nominated for multiple awards including an Oscar and a BAFTA. Most recently, the HBO adaptation of Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson, was released in the summer of 2018 to immense acclaim and launched Flynn’s work back onto the New York Times bestseller list. She co-wrote the 2018 thriller film Widows along with Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen, which starred Viola Davis and Liam Neeson.  Flynn’s previous novels, Dark Places and Dagger Award winner Sharp Objects, were also New York Times bestsellers.

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. Movie rights have been sold. Flynn’s second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller Dark Places, was a New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite, Weekend TODAY Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction choice. Movie rights have been sold, with Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) to direct.

Flynn lives in Chicago with her husband and son.