Jennette McCurdy

Jennette McCurdy is the two-time New York Times bestselling author of Half His Age and I’m Glad My Mom Died. Her memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died, is the winner of the American Library Association Alex Award and the Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography. The book is a #1 New York Times bestseller, spending more than one hundred weeks on the list and selling more than four million copies. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel Half His Age is a #1 international bestseller and a #2 New York Times bestseller, with The Washington Post calling it "hilarious, gross, disturbing, and poignant” and The New York Times praising the "assured and provocative" novel as "cementing McCurdy's standing as a talented writer, articulating vulnerability with guts, humor, and just the slightest whisper of warmth." Her work has been published in over thirty languages. McCurdy has adapted Half His Age for the screen and is set to direct the film.