Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn (2014)

Gillian Flynn (born February 24, 1971 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American writer .

life and work

Flynn studied journalism at the University of Kansas and Northwestern University . She first became a television critic for Entertainment Weekly before settling into writing. Her first novel, Sharp Objects (2006), which was published in Germany under the title Cry Baby , received several smaller prizes such as the “CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2007” and the “New Blood Dagger”. But it wasn't until Dark Places (2009) and above all the US bestseller Gone Girl (2012) brought about the big breakthrough. Gone Girl topped the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks in 2012 .

Three works were filmed: Gillian Flynn wrote the screenplay for Gone Girl , David Fincher took over the direction, and Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck played the leading roles . The director of Dark Places is Gilles Paquet-Brenner , with Charlize Theron and Christina Hendricks in the lead roles . Sharp Objects was published as a mini-series in September 2018, the script was also written by Flynn.

Gillian Flynn's books have been published in 28 countries to date. The author lives in Chicago with her husband and son .

Flynn's style is considered very dark (serial killer, satanism etc.) and has been praised by Stephen King . The setting is their home, the Midwest .

Works

• 2007: Cry Baby. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-10094-2 (OT: Sharp Objects )
• 2010: Dark places. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-502-10095-9 (OT: Dark Places )
• 2012: Gone Girl. The perfect victim . Fischer Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-502-10222-9 (OT: Gone Girl )
• 2014: Cry Baby. Sharp cuts. Fischer Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-651-01164-9
• 2014: Dark Places. Dangerous memory. Fischer Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-651-01189-2
• 2015: Broken House - Dark premonition. Fischer Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-596-03683-7 (OT: The Grownup )

Filmography (selection)

• 2018: Widows - Deadly widows (Widows)

Audio books

• Cry Baby - Scharfe Schnitte , speaker: Christiane Marx, published in 2014, publisher: Argon Verlag GmbH, FISCHER Scherz, Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House

Web links

Commons : Gillian Flynn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gillian Flynn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gillian Flynn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gillian Flynn in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• official website of Gillian Flynn
• interview

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gillian Flynn on "Gone Girl" - Who wants to be the princess? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 12, 2013. Accessed March 28, 2014.
2. ^ "About Gillian" - official author homepage ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ "Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre" (Stephen King on Dark Places ). ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.