Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. Additionally, it was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week.

Kristin's newest new release, The Great Alone, was published on February 6, 2018 (St. Martin's Press) and became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller. The novel, an epic love story and intimate family drama set in Alaska in the turbulent 1970's is a daring, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival and the wildness that lives in both nature and man. Like The Nightingale, The Great Alone was voted the best Historical novel of the year by Goodreads readers.

The Nightingale is currently in production at Tri Star, with director Melanie Laurent and Dakota and Elle Fanning to star. Tri Star has also optioned The Great Alone and is in development.

Kristin's upcoming novel, The Four Winds, set during the Great Depression, will be published on February 9, 2021.
Kristin Hannah (born September 25, 1960) is an American writer.
Hannah was born in California. After Hannah graduated with a degree in Communication from the University of Washington, she worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from law school in University of Puget Sound and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. She currently lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington,[2] with her husband and their son.