“When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.”

American writer and novelist

Jay Asher is an American writer and novelist best known for the bestselling 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why. The book later became a Netflix series, bringing his work to a wider audience. Asher writes fiction for young readers and is primarily associated with Thirteen Reasons Why, the work that defines his public profile. It centers on the themes that made the novel widely discussed and adapted for television, and it remains the title most closely linked to his name.