E. Lockhart

E. Lockhart is the pen name of Emily Jenkins, an American young-adult novelist born on 13 September 1967. She studied at Vassar College and holds a doctorate in English literature from Columbia University. She is best known for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), a Printz Honor and National Book Award finalist, and for the bestselling psychological thriller We Were Liars (2014), followed by Genuine Fraud (2017) and Family of Liars (2022). Under her real name she also writes picture books for children.