About the Author

GILLIAN FLYNN is the author of the runaway hit "Gone Girl, " an international sensation that has spent more than eighty-five weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list. Her work has been published in forty languages. "Gone Girl" is soon to be a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox. Flynn's previous novels, "Dark Places" and Dagger Award winner "Sharp Objects, " were also "New York Times" bestsellers. A former writer and critic for "Entertainment Weekly, " she lives in Chicago with her husband and son.