Jacquelyn Mitchard

Jacquelyn Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and a number one New York Times bestseller. Twelve other novels, four children's books and six young adult novels followed, including Two if By Sea, No Time to Wave Goodbye, Still Summer, All We Know of Heaven,The Breakdown Lane, and The Good Son. Mitchard's writing has won or been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, The Women's Prize for Fiction, UK's Talkabout Prize, The Heartland Prize, and the Bram Stoker Award. Several of her books are in development for TV; The Deep End of the Ocean was adapted as a major motion picture. Her newest, A Very Inconvenient Scandal, tells of a prominent seaside family fractured by what seems to be the father's betrayal; but is it really? A former daily newspaper reporter, Mitchard frequently writes for such publications as Glamour, O the Oprah Winfrey Magazine, Marie Claire, and Readers Digest. Her essays and short stories have been widely anthologized. A native of Chicago, she lives on Cape Cod with her family.