Born in 1974 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Smith College in 1995, she moved to New York to work as a publicist and in 2017 became the director of the renowned T magazine, the fashion supplement of The New York Times. In 2015 she published A Little Life (Lumen, 2016), the novel with which she achieved international success.
Published in twenty-five countries, it was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award, chosen as the best novel of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, People, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews, among other media, and has captivated more than two and a half million readers.
The People in the Trees (Lumen, 2018) was her first novel, considered one of the best of 2013 and the one that distinguished Yanagihara as a young promise in the literary world. Her latest and anticipated novel, To Paradise, which will also be published by Lumen, will be an international publishing event in 2022.
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