She has an older brother, Travis, who is a railroad machinist. Both of her parents were professors at Metropolitan Community College–Penn Valley: her mother, Judith Ann (née Schieber), was a reading-comprehension professor, and her father, Edwin Matthew Flynn, was a film professor. Early life and education įlynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in midtown Kansas City's Coleman Highlands neighborhood. She is currently writing her fourth novel it is set to be published by Penguin Random House. The author also wrote and produced the HBO limited series adaptation of Sharp Objects-for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award-and co-wrote with director Steve McQueen the film Widows (2018).įlynn also worked as a showrunner, writer, and executive producer on Amazon Prime Video's sci-fi thriller series Utopia (2020), which ran for one season. For it she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, among others. įlynn wrote the script for the 2014 film adaptation of Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher. Her books have been published in 40 languages and according to The Washington Post, as of 2016 Gone Girl alone has sold more than 15 million copies. 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. Gillian Schieber Flynn ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ l i ə n/ born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer.

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn