Jenny Han

About

Jenny Han (born September 3, 1980) is an American author, screenwriter, executive producer, and showrunner. She is best known for writing The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which she adapted into a TV series for Prime Video. She also wrote the To All the Boys trilogy, which was adapted into a Netflix film series.

== Early life and education ==
Han was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, to Korean-American parents. She graduated from Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies in 1998, then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2006, she received her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The New School.

== Career ==

=== Author ===
Han wrote her first book, the children’s novel Shug, while she was in college. Shug was published in 2006 and is about Annemarie Wilcox, a twelve-year-old trying to navigate the perils of junior high school.
Her next project was a young adult romance trilogy about a girl’s coming-of-age during her summer breaks. The three novels, The Summer I Turned Pretty, It’s Not Summer Without You, and We’ll Always Have Summer, were published from 2009 to 2011 by Simon & Schuster and quickly became New York Times…