Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman was born in Los Angeles, and worked as a journalist before she began writing novels. She has written for magazines such as Seventeen, Details, Jane, and Glamour. Forman enjoys traveling, and before going to college she took three years off in order to travel. She and her husband, Nick, also spent a year traveling the world, going everywhere from Tonga to Kazakhstan, a journey that Forman wrote about in her memoir You Can’t Get There From Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World. Forman, Nick, and her daughter currently reside in Brooklyn, New York City. She is the author of eight books, including the sequel to If I Stay, called Where She Went.