Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Born in Illinois, Dessen graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996. She has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas....
—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You
—Sarah Dessen in Saint Anything
—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things