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Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, which was made into a major motion picture, and Fly Away Home. A graduate of Princeton University, Jennifer lives in Philadelphia with her... Read full bio

Author Revealed:
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. "Don't pick it." My Mom told me that, and it applies to any number of situations.
Learn more about Jennifer Weiner
My life in 8 words: "Writer, reader, social networker, Mom. Busy, busy, busy!"
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    2. Author Jennifer Weiner on Fly Away Home
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    3. Interview with author Jennifer Weiner and editor Greer He...
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    5. Author Jennifer Weiner on Fly Away Home
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    6. An Interview with Novelist Jennifer Weiner
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    7. Novelist Jennifer Weiner Reads From Best Friends Forever...
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    12. Jennifer Weiner: The Guy Not Taken
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The Next Best Thing will be released on July 10, 2012 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, Audio Download, eAudio, eBook
about 11 hours ago
Then Came You will be released on May 08, 2012 in Trade Paperback
about 12 hours ago
Fly Away Home will be released on July 10, 2012 in Compact Disk
about 12 hours ago
Swim will be released on May 08, 2012 in eBook
Feb 10, 2012
Good in Bed will be released on February 21, 2012 in Audio Download
Feb 01, 2012
Recalculating is now available in
Oct 31, 2011
Recalculating will be released on October 31, 2011 in
Oct 31, 2011
Then Came You will be released on July 12, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Jul 12, 2011
Then Came You is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Jul 12, 2011
Author Appearances have been announced:
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Excerpt:
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Jun 17, 2011
Audio Excerpt:
Then Came You
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Best Friends Forever will be released on May 03, 2011 in Compact Disk
May 03, 2011

Jennifer Weiner Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. "Don't pick it." My Mom told me that, and it applies to any number of situations. Q. What do you regret most? A. Meeting one of my literary heroes -- one of the men whose work made me think that I could become a writer, too. He turned out to be a horrible sexist who claimed to never read books by women. I'm still getting over that one. Q. What is your greatest achievement? A. I think I'm supposed to say something about my children or my books here, but honestly, any morning that I wake up and find that I've successfully charged the various electronic devices that I'll need, that's a good day. Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. Linda Voss, from Susan Isaac's SHINING THROUGH, a secretary-turned-spy who saves the world and gets the guy. Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. Cape Cod, on a perfect sunny July afternoon, paddling my kayak through the salt marsh with my daughters, looking for clams. Learn more about Jennifer Weiner

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Washington Post, February 7, 2012
...nuance. With an endearingly flawed narrator in a conflicted relationship, this is chick-lit territory that many talented writers Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Wells among them have explored far more deftly. What makes Diary of a Mad Fat Girl so fascinating...
Washington Post, February 7, 2012
...nuance. With an endearingly flawed narrator in a conflicted relationship, this is chick-lit territory that many talented writers Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Wells among them have explored far more deftly. What makes Diary of a Mad Fat Girl so fascinating...
Huffington Post, February 4, 2012
...Roxane Gay recently pointed out in Salon that all our discussions about whether women writers like best selling Jennifer Weiner don't get enough press coverage miss a major point. Writers are easily dissatisfied, no matter what they've achieved. As Gay...
Printing Impressions, January 31, 2012
...place on the cover of Time magazine but also the invention of the term ‘Franzenfreude’, coined by author Jennifer Weiner to describe “taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen”. Fans include Barack Obama,...
Crikey Media, January 30, 2012
...place on the cover of Time magazine but also the invention of the term ‘Franzenfreude’, coined by author Jennifer Weiner to describe “taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen”. Fans include Barack Obama,...
Telegraph, January 30, 2012
...place on the cover of Time magazine but also the invention of the term Franzenfreude, coined by author Jennifer Weiner to describe taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen. Fans include Barack Obama, who was so...
Booktrade - Book2Book, January 30, 2012
...Male and female authors in America are competing over who has it harder, with bestselling chick lit author Jennifer Weiner arguing the New York Times still pays more attention to male writers, and first-time novelist Teddy Wayne countering that most male...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, November 1, 2011
...get you through everyday pain -- and isn't it the everyday pain that often breaks our hearts? Jennifer Weiner's Good In Bed explores the aftermath of a young woman reading her ex's description of her in a national magazine, a dramatization of how so many...
Cheryl's Book Nook, October 29, 2011
...Recalculating: A Short StoryBy Jennifer WeinerTommy had been dead for six months when Maureen found the box he’d left for her in the attic.She’d gone up there to retrieve the Halloween decorations, the glow-in-the-dark eyeballs and fake spiders that...
In one eye, out the other..., October 26, 2011
...or two very best-selling female novelists that had been outspoken on the subject. (And his memory was correct. Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult were much quoted.) Mr. Eugenides continued that given the number of books they sold, he really didn’t know...
Book Binge, October 13, 2011
...Ties and Lullabies by Jane Graves. (4.5 out of 5)Cosmo's Sexiest Stories by Jane Green, Jennifer Weiner and Meg Cabot. (1.5 out of 5)Something So Right by Elyse Mady. (4 out of 5)Don't Mess with Texas by Christie Craig. (4 out of...
Mystery Fanfare, October 12, 2011
...Today marks my 2011 Halloween Kick-Off. I'll be hosting several Guest Crime Writers on Frightful Fridays this month--authors who set a mystery or two during Halloween or have a particularly fun Halloween or scary story to impart! Boo!Mystery Readers...
Online College Courses, September 27, 2011
...No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency fame tweets about books, dreams, and even hats. @jenniferweiner : Popular chick lit author Jennifer Weiner regularly shares her novels, love of The Bachelor , and truly funny tweets. @TheAuthorGuy : Whether you’re...
Book Binge, September 21, 2011
...Rowena's review of Cosmo's Sexiest Stories Ever by Jane Green, Jennifer Weiner and Meg Cabot.The world’s best-selling magazine for young women asked three best-selling authors to each write a story steamy enough for the pages of Cosmo—a tall order...