Kimberly McCreight


Kimberly McCreight is an American author, known for her debut novel Reconstructing Amelia. Her The Outliers Trilogy marked her first time publishing in the young adult fiction genre. McCreight has also had pieces published in The New York Times, Sunday Times Style Magazine, New York Magazine Online, Babble, and Park Slope Patch.
Film rights to Reconstructing Amelia have been purchased by Nicole Kidman's production company Blossom Films and rights to The Outliers Trilogy were purchased by Lionsgate.

Biography

McCreight studied at Vassar College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and worked as a lawyer for many years including a stint as at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, during which time she wrote short stories and began taking online writing classes. She began writing novels after she took a leave of absence from work to go with her then-fiancé and now husband Anthony Prentice while he worked in London for a year. By June 2001 McCreight had finished her first novel and acquired a literary agent but had no success selling her novels until February 2012, when Harper picked up literary rights to Reconstructing Amelia. Prior to this McCreight had written four novels, the second of which she stated was "a terrible book". McCreight currently works as a full-time writer in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and two children.

''The Outliers Trilogy''

  1. The Outliers
  2. The Scattering
  3. The Collide

    Short stories