吉莉安·弗琳

吉莉安·希伯·弗琳（英语：Gillian Schieber Flynn，1971年2月24日—）是一位美国女性作家、编剧和漫画书作者，曾是一位效力于《娱乐周刊》的电视评论家。目前她已经出版了三部惊悚小说，包括《利器》（Sharp Objects）、《暗处》（Dark Places）和《消失的爱人》（Gone Girl）。其中《消失的爱人》于2014年被大卫·芬奇拍摄成同名电影，并由她本人担任编剧;而《暗处》则于2015年由法国导演吉尔斯·帕奎-布莱纳编剧并执导为《暗黑之地》。

生平

她生于密苏里州堪萨斯城，父母都是 Metropolitan Community College 的教授，母亲朱迪丝·安教授阅读理解，父亲埃德温·马修弗林教授电影课程。她有一个哥哥Travis是位铁路机械工程师。受家庭的影响，她从小就喜欢阅读、写作和看电影。

弗琳毕业于堪萨斯大学的英语和新闻专业。曾短暂效力于《美国新闻与世界报道》。1998年至2008年为《娱乐周刊》写电视评论和影评，之后担任专职作家。

个人生活

2007年她与律师 Brett Nolan 结婚，两人育有2个孩子。自从30多岁时她就与家人一起居住在芝加哥。

作品

《利器》（Sharp Objects， 2006） 连环杀手题材，2018年改编为同名迷你剧

《暗处》（Dark Places， 2009） 案件调查题材，2015年改编电影《暗黑之地》

《消失的爱人》（Gone Girl，2012），夫妻情感题材，2014年改编为同名电影

《搞鬼》 （The Grownup，2015）

Gillian Schieber Flynn (born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012). Her works have been published in 40 languages, and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

Early life and education

Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in the Coleman Highlands neighborhood. Both of her parents were educators: her mother, Judith Ann (née Schieber), was a reading-comprehension professor, and her father, Edwin Matthew Flynn, taught film. Flynn has an older brother, Travis, who works as a railroad machinist. She has described herself as a "painfully shy" child, finding refuge in reading and writing. Her interest in storytelling was further cultivated by her father's love of horror films.

As a young woman, Flynn worked assorted jobs, including selling honey-baked ham and giving out yoghurt samples in the mall, dressed as "a tuxedo-clad cone." She attended Bishop Miege High School, graduating in 1989, and went on to earn undergraduate degrees in English and journalism from the University of Kansas.

After spending two years in California writing at a trade magazine for human resources professionals, Flynn moved to Chicago. She attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where she completed a master's degree in 1997. Initially aspiring to become a crime reporter, she ultimately chose to pursue a career in creative writing.

Career

After graduating from Northwestern, Flynn worked freelance briefly at U.S. News & World Report before joining Entertainment Weekly in 1998 as a feature writer, eventually becoming a television critic. She was made redundant in December 2008. Flynn credits her years in journalism with helping to hone her writing skills, stating that journalism taught her the discipline of writing without waiting for inspiration. She said, "I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious."

Flynn's portrayal of complex, morally ambiguous, and often unflattering female characters has drawn criticism from some critics, who have accused her of misogyny. However, Flynn identifies as a feminist, and has defended her choice to write female characters who defy conventional expectations of women as inherently nurturing or morally virtuous. She states, "the one thing that really frustrates me is this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing." To her, people will dismiss "trampy, vampy, bitchy types – but there's still a big pushback against the idea that women can be just pragmatically evil, bad, and selfish."

In 2021, Flynn was appointed to lead a new book imprint – Gillian Flynn Books – for the independent publisher Zando. As of May 2025, she was working on her fourth novel, another psychological thriller, to be published by Penguin Random House.

Books

As of 2025, Flynn had published three novels and one short story.

While working at Entertainment Weekly, she wrote her first novel, Sharp Objects (2006), a psychological thriller about a reporter investigating a series of murders in her hometown. Partly inspired by Dennis Lehane's Mystic River, the book was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar for Best First Novel, and won the Crime Writers' Association's New Blood and Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. Sharp Objects was later adapted into a celebrated 2018 television miniseries starring Amy Adams.