Jay Asher

Jay Asher was born in California. He attended community college and California Polytechnic State University, where he took a children’s literature class that ignited his passion for writing for young readers. Asher left university in his junior year to pursue a career in writing. In 2007, he published 13 Reasons Why, which sold over three million copies in the ten years following its release and was adapted into a Netflix series in 2017. Asher has published three subsequent young adult novels: The Future of Us with co-author Carolyn Mackler, What Light, and Piper with co-author Jessica Freeburg. He lives in California.