Claire Cook

Claire Cook
Claire Cook in 2015
Born	(1955-02-14) February 14, 1955 (age 62) Alexandria, Virginia
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author, Speaker, Publisher
Known for	Must Love Dogs
Website	www.clairecook.com

Claire Cook (born February 14, 1955) is an American writer and public speaker.

Cook taught school for sixteen years. She wrote her first novel (Ready to Fall) when she was 45 years old. Her second novel, Must Love Dogs, was made into a major motion picture starring Diane Lane and John Cusack. In 2014, she started her own publishing company, Marshbury Beach Books. Cook’s first non-fiction book, Never Too Late: Your Roadmap to Reinvention (Without Getting Lost Along the Way), shares her journey and tips for midlife women reinventing their lives. Her books have been translated into 14 languages.

Cook graduated from Scituate High School (Massachusetts). She was a Newhouse Scholar at Syracuse University, graduating cum laude with a dual major in Film and Creative Writing. She spent her senior year at Harvard University as a visiting student, where she studied fiction with Robert Stuart Fitzgerald, who translated The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Cook was born in Alexandria, Virginia to Daniel Joseph Cook and Margaret Lavelle Gibson. Her mother met her father when she taught his Business English class at Worcester Business College after they both finished serving in World War II. Cook's mother died suddenly of sepsis days before Cook’s eleventh birthday. Her father worked for The Boston Globe, retiring several years before his death in 1992. Claire Cook is the second oldest, and oldest daughter, of eight siblings.

Cook married Richard (Jake) Jacobucci in 1978. They have two children. Cook and her husband reside in Atlanta, Georgia.