“I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.”

American author, screenwriter, and producer

Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. She is best known for her thriller and mystery novels, including Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl. Her books have been translated into 40 languages. By 2016, Gone Girl had sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, a measure of how widely her work has reached readers.