Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. Her notable works include Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only. Early life Emily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper. Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double-majored in history and English and also served as manager of the basketball team. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia. Career After graduating from law school in 1997, she moved to Manhattan and worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn. In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time. Her first young adult novel, Lily Holding True, was rejected by eight publishers. Giffin began a new novel, then titled Rolling the Dice, which became the bestselling novel Something Borrowed, released in 2004, which received positive reviews and made it to the New York Times bestsellers list. Giffin found an agent in 2002 and signed a two-book deal with St. Martin's Press. While doing revisions on Something Borrowed, she found the inspiration for a sequel, Something Blue (2005). In 2006, her third novel, Baby Proof, made its debut. She spent 2007 finishing her fourth novel, Love the One You're With. Nine of her novels have been international bestsellers. Three appeared simultaneously on USA Today'''s Top 150 list. Something Borrowed was adapted into a major feature film (released on May 6, 2011), and its sequel novel, Something Blue, has also been optioned for film. Novels Something Borrowed (2004) Something Blue (2005) Baby Proof (2006) Love the One You're With (2008) Heart of the Matter (2010) The Diary of Darcy J. Rhone (2012): Prequel to Something Blue and Something Borrowed Where We Belong (2012) The One and Only (2014) First Comes Love (2016) All We Ever Wanted (2018) The Lies That Bind (2020) Meant to Be'' (2022) References External links 1972 births 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers American chick lit writers American expatriates in England American women novelists Litigators Living people New York (state) lawyers Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) Novelists from Illinois Novelists from Maryland University of Virginia School of Law alumni Wake Forest