Gillian Flynn | |
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![]() Flynn at the 52nd New York Film Festival, September 2014 | |
Born | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | February 24, 1971
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Period | 2007–present |
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Brett Nolan (m. 2007) |
Children | 2 |
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Gillian Schieber Flynn[1][2][3] (/ˈɡɪliən/;[4] born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. She is known for writing the thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012), which are all critically acclaimed.[5] Her books have been published in 40 languages,[6] and according to The Washington Post, as of 2016 Gone Girl alone has sold more than 15 million copies.[7]
Flynn wrote the script for the 2014 film adaptation of Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher. For it she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America and the BAFTA awards, among others.
The author also wrote and produced the HBO limited series adaptation of Sharp Objects, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy and the Writers Guild of America Award. Flynn also co-wrote with director Steve McQueen the screenplay of the film Widows (2018).
She has also served as showrunner, writer, and executive producer on Amazon Prime Video's sci-fi thriller series Utopia (2020), which ran for one season.
As of 2021[update] she was writing her fourth novel, set to be published by Penguin Random House.
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