Emily Giffin
| Emily Giffin | |
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| Born | Emily Fisk Giffin March 20, 1972 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Occupation | Writer, former lawyer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Wake Forest University (B.A.) University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.) |
| Children | 3 |
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Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit.
Her best known works are Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only.
Emily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief for the school's newspaper. Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double majored in history and English and also served as manager of the basketball team. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia.
After graduating from law school in 1997, she moved to Manhattan and worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn. However, she was determined to seriously pursue her writing. In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time. Her first young adult novel, Lily Holding True, was rejected by eight publishers. Giffin began a new novel, then titled Rolling the Dice, which became the bestselling novel Something Borrowed.
Giffin found an agent in 2002 and signed a two book deal with St. Martin's Press. While doing revisions on Something Borrowed, she found the inspiration for a sequel, Something Blue. Something Borrowed was released spring 2004. It received positive reviews and made the extended New York Times bestsellers list. Something Blue followed in 2005, and in 2006, her third, Baby Proof, made its debut. She spent 2007 finishing her fourth novel, Love the One You're With.
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