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Kristin Hannah

Biography

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 a selection of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club in 2023. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste and The Week. In 2018, THE GREAT ALONE became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.

THE FOUR WINDS was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Indie bookstores’ bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both "Today" and the Book of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.  

THE NIGHTINGALE is currently in production at Tri Star, with Dakota and Elle Fanning set to star. Tri Star has also optioned THE GREAT ALONE, and it is in development. FIREFLY LANE, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular TV show starred Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke, and season two concluded the series in April 2023.

A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Books by Kristin Hannah

by Kristin Hannah - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

From the celebrated author of THE NIGHTINGALE and THE FOUR WINDS comes Kristin Hannah's THE WOMEN --- at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

by Kristin Hannah - Fiction, Historical Fiction

From the #1 bestselling author of THE NIGHTINGALE and THE GREAT ALONE comes a powerful American epic about love, heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression --- a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, millions were out of work, and even the land seemed to have turned against them.

written by Kristin Hannah, read by Julia Whelan - Fiction, Historical Fiction

From the #1 bestselling author of THE NIGHTINGALE and THE GREAT ALONE comes a powerful American epic about love, heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression --- a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, millions were out of work, and even the land seemed to have turned against them.

by Kristin Hannah - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

THE GREAT ALONE is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.

written by Kristin Hannah, read by Julia Whelan - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

THE GREAT ALONE is the newest audiobook sensation from Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of THE NIGHTINGALE. This program is read by acclaimed narrator Julia Whelan, whose enchanting voice brought GONE GIRL and FATES AND FURIES to life. Hannah reads the acknowledgments.

by Kristin Hannah - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

THE NIGHTINGALE tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France.

by Kristin Hannah - Fiction, Women's Fiction

An emotionally complex, heart-wrenching novel about love, motherhood, loss and new beginnings, Fly Away returns to the beloved characters first introduced in Firefly Lane and reminds us that where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is forgiveness.