Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, and producer.
23 Facts About Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn is known for writing the thriller and mystery novels, Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, which are all critically acclaimed.
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Gillian Flynn's books have been published in 40 languages and according to The Washington Post, as of 2016 Gone Girl alone has sold more than 15 million copies.
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Gillian Flynn worked as a showrunner, writer, and executive producer on Amazon Prime Video's sci-fi thriller series Utopia, which ran for one season.
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Gillian Flynn is currently writing her fourth novel; it is set to be published by Penguin Random House.
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Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in midtown Kansas City's Coleman Highlands neighborhood.
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Gillian Flynn has an older brother, Travis, who is a railroad machinist.
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Gillian Flynn's uncle is Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Robert Schieber.
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Gillian Flynn was "painfully shy" and found escape in reading and writing.
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Gillian Flynn attended Bishop Miege High School and graduated in 1989.
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Gillian Flynn attended the University of Kansas, where she received her undergraduate degrees in English and journalism.
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Gillian Flynn spent two years in California, writing at a trade magazine for human resources professionals, before moving to Chicago and attending Northwestern University for a master's degree at its Medill School of Journalism in 1997.
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Gillian Flynn initially wanted to work as a police reporter, but she chose to focus on her own writing, as she discovered she had "no aptitude" for police reporting.
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Gillian Flynn was promoted to television critic and wrote about films but was laid off in December 2008.
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Gillian Flynn feels that feminism allows for women to be bad characters in literature.
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In 2021, it was announced that Gillian Flynn would be running a book imprint for the newly founded independent publisher Zando.
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When Gillian Flynn was working for Entertainment Weekly, she was writing novels during her free time.
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Gillian Flynn has written three novels and one short story.
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Gillian Flynn was an avid reader of comic and graphic novels when she was a child.
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Gillian Flynn collaborated with illustrator Dave Gibbons and wrote a comic book story called Masks.
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Gillian Flynn was executive producer and cowriter, along with Marti Noxon, on the HBO adaptation of her novel Sharp Objects starring Amy Adams.
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In February 2014, it was reported that Gillian Flynn would be writing the scripts for Utopia, an HBO drama series adapted from the acclaimed British series Utopia.
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Gillian Flynn wrote all eight episodes and served as the project's showrunner.