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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

Books by Janelle Brown

by Janelle Brown - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of BIG LITTLE LIES --- from the bestselling author of ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING.

by Janelle Brown

When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting for --- until she learns that her husband is leaving her and has cut her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, 400 miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her irreverent postfeminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home, where her confused and lonesome teenage sister, Lizzie, is struggling with problems of her own: She’s become the school slut.