Taylor Jenkins Reid

Reid was born in Maryland on 20 December 1983. At age 12, she and her family moved to Acton, Massachusetts.

Reid graduated from Emerson College in Boston and majored in media studies.

Reid began her career in film production. After graduating from college, she moved to Los Angeles and worked as a casting assistant. Reid also worked at a high school before she got a book deal. She signed with her first literary agent at age 24.

Forever, Interrupted, her first novel, was published in 2013. Reid co-wrote the television show Resident Advisors, which premiered in 2015.

Reid's novel One True Love was published in 2016. The film adaption, released in 2023, stars Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu and Luke Bracey.

Her novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was published in 2017 to commercial and critical acclaim. The book tells the story of a fictional Old Hollywood star as she reveals the long-held secrets tarnishing both her mysterious life and glamorous marriages.

Reid's 2019 novel Daisy Jones & the Six recounts, using an oral history format, the ups and downs of a fictional 1970s rock band loosely based on Fleetwood Mac. Daisy Jones & the Six won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award in 2020. The novel was a finalist for the Book of the Month's Book of the Year award in 2021. The audiobook version was named one of Apple Books' Best Audiobooks of 2019. Amazon Studios developed the book into a miniseries, which debuted in 2023.

Reid published Carrie Soto Is Back in 2022. It is the fourth and presumed final book of Reid's "famous women quartet," following The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & the Six, and Malibu Rising. Reid has stated that she intends to take an extended break before beginning her next literary project.

While working in the film industry, Reid met and married Alex Jenkins Reid, a screenwriter. They live in Los Angeles with their daughter.

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