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Emily Henry

Geboren: May 17, 1991 – Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Emily Henry is an American novelist known for contemporary romance and earlier young adult fiction, often blending humor, grief, and self-discovery. Her notable books include Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, Book Lovers, and Happy Place. A bestselling author, she won the Goodreads Choice Award for Romance for People We Meet on Vacation.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Emily Henry’s fiction is rooted in a distinctly American geography and in an early sense of movement between places. She spent her first five years in southern California, then lived in Kentucky and Ohio before attending Hope College in Michigan, where she studied creative writing after first choosing the school for its dance program. A novel-writing class there became a decisive turning point: it taught her to finish drafts, not simply begin them. After graduation, she returned to the Cincinnati area, worked in technical writing, and pursued publication through research, cold emails, and persistence rather than literary connections. ((https://calendar.hope.edu/event/visiting_writers_series_q_and_a_with_emily_henry))

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I find it really hard to write a compelling love story where you don’t pick at the emotional scabs of the hero and heroine
-The Guardian interview
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To write a story that I enjoy writing and reading, there has to be conflict
-Vogue interview
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It’s saying no to a great interview or a great event with an author I love
-Zibby transcript
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The people who love you will walk with you through slow progress toward I can
-YA Open Mic
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I’m not usually a very go-with-the-flow person. I like order. I like expectations
-Hello Girls conversation
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On vacation, you can be anyone you want
-People We Meet on Vacation
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It was just a story I’d been telling myself. From now on, it was the ugly truth or nothing
-Beach Read
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I couldn’t have imagined being any happier, loving anywhere else as much
-Happy Place
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He can’t be as bad as he seems. And even if he is, it’s not like we’ll be spending time together
-Great Big Beautiful Life

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