Taylor Jenkins Reid

About the Author

Taylor Jenkins Reid is a best-selling author from the United States. She has written nine novels, including The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & the Six, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto is Back, and Atmosphere. Jenkins Reid was born in Maryland and moved with her family to Massachusetts when she was 12 years old. She went on to graduate from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in Media Studies. She started her career working on movies and TV series, where she met her husband, the screenwriter Alex Jenkins Reid. Jenkins Reid quit her job in 2011 to focus on writing a novel, which eventually became her first book, Forever, Interrupted. Jenkins’s Reid’s 2017 book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was a bestseller and breakout success. Her next book after that, Daisy Jones & the Six—a fictional oral history of a 1970s band that bears some resemblance to Fleetwood Mac—was another bestseller. Reese Witherspoon also chose that book for her book club. Jenkins Reid and her husband now live in Los Angeles with their daughter.

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Atmosphere

On December 29, 1984, there’s a malfunction on a NASA Space Shuttle, and shrapnel tears a hole in astronaut Griff’s space suit, causing him to quickly lose oxygen. The debris also ruptures a hole i... view guide

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Evelyn Hugo, a movie star of the 1960s and 1970s, is now 79 years old. As she prepares to sell 12 of her most famous dresses at auction, she reaches out to Vivant, a prominent magazine, to request ... view guide