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- Birth nameGillian Schieber Flynn
- Gillian Flynn was born on February 24, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Gone Girl (2014), Widows (2018) and Sharp Objects (2018). She has been married to Brett Nolan since 2007. They have two children.
- SpouseBrett Nolan(2007 - present) (2 children)
- Female villains
- Stories usually involve dark subject matter involving crime
- Former television critic for Entertainment Weekly.
- First name Gillian is pronounced with a hard 'G'.
- Lost her job as a pop culture writer at Entertainment Weekly magazine in New York during the recession, a fate not unlike that which befell the leads in Gone Girl (2014).
- Father was a film professor, hence Gillian's lifelong love of movies.
- Gillian and husband Brett, a lawyer, reside in the Ukrainian Village district of Chicago.
- I've certainly been called a misogynist and that to me is strange. It feels so old-fashioned to think because you write about awful women that you don't like women. To me, it's worse to only write about good women. I'm tired of women as the supporting character, women as the helpmate, women as the adorably flawed heroine - she can be front and center, but only if she falls down a lot and has trouble with men.
- [Discussing her novel Dark Places with her husband] His question to her was: "I'm curious, do you love Libby? Do you like writing her?" And I was like, "Ugh, I can't stand her." You would think I knew her personally. He said he could tell I didn't like writing her or believe in her. So I trashed it all and started over again. Libby became a dark, malevolent creature and the novel took off. Very inefficient way to write, but I get there in the end.
- I'd like to scrape up some sense of triumph over the fact that many courageous women have raised their voices. But I don't feel triumphant. I feel humiliated and angry. They hate us. That's my immediate thought, with each new revelation. And them a more sick-making suspicion. They don't care about us enough to hate us. We are simply a form of livestock.
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