Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl is the award-winning, #1 Indie and New York Times bestselling author of literary thrillers and mysteries for adults and young readers, including Night Film, Neverworld Wake, and Darkly—currently in development for television with Blumhouse and Jamie Lee Curtis. She is the recipient of the 2025 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Young Adult Novel, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and her debut, Special Topics in Calamity Physics was chosen by the New York Times as a Best Book of the Year. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages.

She lives in New York with her family.