Jean Hanff Korelitz was born in New York City and is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cambridge University. She is the author of nine acclaimed novels, including The Sequel, The Latecomer, and The Plot (the latter two currently in development for film or limited series). Her novel You Should Have Known was adapted by David E. Kelley into HBO’s acclaimed 2020 limited series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. Her New York Times bestselling novel Admission was adapted into the 2013 feature film starring Tina Fey.
Her other works include The Devil and Webster, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River, and A Jury of Her Peers. In addition to her fiction, Korelitz has published a poetry collection, The Properties of Breath, and a middle-grade novel, Interference Powder.
With her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon, she adapted James Joyce’s The Dead into an immersive theatre production staged by Irish Repertory Theatre for three consecutive seven-week runs in 2016, 2017, and 2018, and again in 2024.
Korelitz is also the creator of BOOKTHEWRITER, which hosts “Pop-Up Book Groups”—intimate gatherings where readers engage directly with authors to discuss great books. The Plot was featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as the Fallon Summer Reads 2021 selection.
She lives in New York City and has two grown children.