22 Facts About Paula Hawkins

1. Paula Hawkins attained commercial success and critical acclaim with her novel.

2. Paula Hawkins was hired to be the Athletic director's secretary and met her future husband.

3. Paula Hawkins was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for the US Senate in 1974, which was won by Jack Eckerd.

4. Paula Hawkins was an American politician from Florida.

5. Paula Hawkins read philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, University of Oxford.

6. Paula Hawkins is about to publish a new book, Into the Water, about a small English town with a sinister history of drowned women.

7. Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction.

8. Paula Hawkins was born and raised in Salisbury, Rhodesia.

9. Paula Hawkins is a Zimbabwean nationalized journalist and writer.

10. Paula Hawkins served as president of a management consulting company she founded in 1988.

11. Paula Hawkins won, too, but by a narrower margin, just 52 percent.

12. In 1978, Paula Hawkins lost a campaign for lieutenant governor of Florida.

13. In 2009, Paula Hawkins turned her attention from reporting factual stories to writing fiction.

14. Paula Hawkins is British novelist born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1972, whose first novel, The Girl on the Train, became a bestseller.

15. Paula Hawkins is the author of the bestselling thriller novel The Girl on the Train.

16. Paula Hawkins was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in London.

17. Paula Hawkins started her writing career as a journalist in The Times.

18. Paula Hawkins was born on August 26, 1972 in Salisbury, Rhodesia.

19. Paula Hawkins was named a director of Philip Crosby Associates in 1988.

20. Paula Hawkins was particularly active in the realm of child welfare.

21. Paula Hawkins launched her own electoral career by campaigning as a consumer advocate.

22. Paula Hawkins was the eldest of three children born to Paul and Leone Fickes in Salt Lake City, Utah.