Emily Giffin

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Emily Giffin
BornEmily Fisk Giffin
(1972-03-20) March 20, 1972 (age 52)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation Writer, former lawyer
Alma mater Wake Forest University (BA)
University of Virginia School of Law (JD)
Children3
Website
www.emilygiffin.com

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]

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Early life

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. [1] 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]

Career

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. [1] 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. [1]

In 2002, Giffin found an agent and signed a two-book contract with St. Martin's Press. [1] 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 was released in July 2024. [10]

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”. [11]

Novels

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  3. ↑ "In Print" (PDF). UVA Lawyer: 84–85. Fall 2004.
  4. ↑ "Emily Giffin". Fantastic Fiction. June 30, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
  5. ↑ Weaver, Teresa (August 1, 2012). "Q&A with Emily Giffin". Atlanta Magazine.
  6. ↑ "Emily Giffin". MacMillan Publishers. June 30, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Emily Giffin". Penguin Random House. June 30, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Official Biography". Emily Giffin. June 30, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
  9. ↑ McNary, Dave McNary (2008-08-26). "Swank really 'Something'". Variety. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02.
  10. ↑ https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2024/07/09/emily-giffin-the-summer-pact/
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