Author of Sharp Objects and 10+ Books
Gillian Flynn is the author of the runaway hit Gone Girl, an international sensation which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 95 weeks. Her work has been published in 40 languages. Twentieth Century-Fox's Gone Girl is a major motion picture. Flynn's earlier novels, Dark Places and Sharp Objects, winner of the Dagger Award, were also bestsellers in the New York Times. A former Entertainment Weekly writer and critic, she l... ives with her husband and children in Chicago.READ MORE
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Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.