“I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.”

American writer and producer

Diablo Cody is the pen name of Brook Maurio, an American writer and producer. She came to wider attention through her candid blog and her memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, published in 2005. Cody became especially well known for her screenwriting debut, Juno, released in 2007. The film brought her critical acclaim and earned her both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.