Janelle Brown
Biography
Janelle Brown
Janelle Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels WHAT KIND OF PARADISE, I'LL BE YOU, PRETTY THINGS, WATCH ME DISAPPEAR, ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHNG and THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE. Her books have been sold in two dozen countries around the world. PRETTY THINGS, named a Best Book of 2020 by Amazon, is currently being adapted for television by Peacock and Fifth Season.
Her journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Wired, Self, RealSimple, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications. Previously, she worked as a senior writer at Salon and began her career as a staff writer at Wired during the dotcom boom years, working on seminal Web sites like HotWired and Wired News. In the 1990s, she was also the editor and co-founder of Maxi, an irreverent (and now long-gone) women’s pop culture Webzine.
A native of San Francisco and graduate of UC Berkeley, she has since defected to Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband Greg and their two children.
Janelle Brown
