“Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.”

American young adult fiction author

Gayle Forman is an American young adult fiction author, best known for her novel If I Stay. The book reached the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list for Young Adult Fiction and was later adapted into a film of the same name. She writes for young adult readers and is most closely associated with If I Stay, the work that brought her widest recognition. Her public profile rests on that novel and its film adaptation, which extended its reach beyond the page.