| Emily Giffin | |
| Birth Name: | Emily Fisk Giffin |
| Birth Date: | 20 March 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Writer, former lawyer |
| Alma Mater: | Wake Forest University (BA) University of Virginia School of Law (JD) |
| Children: | 3 |
Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972)[1] is an American author of several novels, including Something Borrowed, Meant to Be, All We Ever Wanted, Heart of the Matter, and The One and Only.[2]
Emily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper. Afterwards, Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double-majored in history and English and served as basketball team manager. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia.[1]
After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1997,[3] Giffin moved to Manhattan, where she worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn.[4] In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time.[5] Her first young adult novel, Lily Holding True, was rejected by eight publishers. Giffin started writing a new novel, originally titled Rolling the Dice, which was published in 2004 and became a best-seller called Something Borrowed. The novel received positive reviews and made the New York Times bestseller list.
In 2002, Giffin found an agent and signed a two-book contract with St. Martin's Press. St. Martin's-Griffin published Giffin's first six novels. Her subsequent novels are published by Penguin Random House.[6] [7]
Nine of Giffin's novels have become New York Times bestsellers.[8] Three books appeared simultaneously on USA Today's top 150 list. Something Borrowed was adapted into a feature film (released on May 6, 2011), and its sequel novel, Something Blue, has been optioned for film.[9]
Her novel The Summer Pact is scheduled for release in 2024.[10] [11]
Vanity Fair described Giffin as a “modern day Jane Austen” (Vanity Fair) while the New York Times dubbed her as a “dependably down-to-earth storyteller”.[12]