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Gillian Flynn is an American author, comic book writer, screenwriter, and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. She has already published three best-selling novels. These include skarp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl. Each of these three novels has already been adapted as a film or television series.
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Gillian Flynn
American writer (born 1971)
Gillian Schieber Flynn[1][2][3] (;[4] born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012).[5] Her works have been translated into 40 languages[citation needed], and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15 million copies worldwide.[6]
Early life and education
[edit]Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in the Coleman Highlands neighborhood.[7][8] Both of her parents were educators: her mother, Judith Ann (née Schieber), was a reading-comprehension professor, and her father, Edwin Matthew Flynn, taught film.[8][9][10][11] Flynn has an older brother, Travis, who works as a railroad machinist.[8] She has described herself as a “painfully shy” chil
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Gillian Flynn was born on February 24, 1971 in Kansas City. Both her parents were professors, and Flynn, who was a shy child, spent much of her childhood reading and writing. She studied English and journalism at the University of Kansas, followed by a Master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University. After experimenting with police reporting and freelance journalism, she was hired by Entertainment Weekly in 1998, where she would go on to write as a film and television critic.
Flynn's first novel, Sharp Objects, was published in 2006 while she was still working at Entertainment Weekly. The novel won a number of awards and was followed by her second novel, Dark Places in 2009. In 2008, Flynn was laid off from her job at Entertainment Weekly, an experience which she drew on in writing Gone Girl. Gone Girl, published in June 2012, is Flynn's most successful work to date. It furthers her intere