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Kimberly McCreight

Biography

Kimberly McCreight

Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Alex Awards, and was called Entertainment Weekly’s Favorite Book of the Year. It has been optioned for TV by HBO, Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films, and David E. Kelley. McCreight’s second adult novel, WHERE THEY FOUND HER, was a USA Today bestseller and a Kirkus Best Mystery of the Year. While her third, A GOOD MARRIAGE, was named a Best Book of the Summer by the New York Times, People and Publishers Weekly. It was also an Amazon Best Mystery of the Month. A TV adaptation of A GOOD MARRIAGE is coming soon from Amazon and Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films.

McCreight’s most recent book is FRIENDS LIKE THESE. It was named a "Good Morning America" Buzz Pick and an Amazon Best Book of the Month. It will be adapted for TV by Amblin Television.

McCreight is also the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult trilogy The Outliers (THE OUTLIERS, THE SCATTERING and THE COLLIDE), optioned for film by Lionsgate and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard.

She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Books by Kimberly McCreight

by Kimberly McCreight - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Kimberly McCreight's taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth behind a tragedy, revealing that three women have far more in common than they could ever have imagined: that the very worst crimes are committed against those we love.

by Kimberly McCreight - Fiction

Kate learns that her daughter, Amelia, has been suspended from school. Upon her arrival, she finds the school surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump.