Gillian Flynn, born in 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American author and screenwriter known for dark, psychologically intense thrillers driven by unreliable narrators and morally compromised characters. She graduated from the University of Kansas and earned a master's degree from Northwestern University.
Before turning to fiction full time, she spent years as a writer and television critic for Entertainment Weekly, an experience that sharpened her eye for character and popular culture.
Her breakout novel, Gone Girl, published in 2012, became a worldwide phenomenon, praised for its twisting structure and its acid portrait of a failing marriage. Flynn adapted it into a screenplay for the acclaimed film. Her earlier novels, Sharp Objects and Dark Places, were also adapted for screen.
Flynn has continued to write for film and television, and her work is credited with helping drive the modern boom in domestic and psychological suspense fiction.
