Jillian Lauren | |
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 Jillian Lauren at the 2011Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | (1973-08-16)August 16, 1973 (age 51) Livingston, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2001–present |
| Genre | tragicomedy,fiction,memoir |
| Notable works | Everything You Ever Wanted,Some Girls: My Life in a Harem andPretty |
| Spouse | Scott Shriner (m. 2005–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
| jillianlauren | |
Jillian Lauren (born August 16, 1973) is an American writer, performer, adoption advocate, and formercall girl forJefri Bolkiah, Prince of Brunei; about whom she wrote her first memoir,Some Girls: My Life in a Harem.[1]
Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling[2]memoir booksEverything You Ever Wanted, released May 2015,[3]Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, released in 2010,[1] and the 2011 novelPretty, all published byPlume/Penguin.Some Girls, which chronicles her time spent in the harem of the Prince of Brunei, has been translated into eighteen languages.
Lauren's USA Today bestselling true crime bookBehold the Monster: Facing America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer was published by Sourcebooks in 2023.[4] The book is based on the author's extensive interviews with serial killerSamuel Little. Her work attempting to seek justice for Little's victims and match cold cases to him is chronicled in the 2021 five-part documentary series,Confronting a Serial Killer.[5][6]
Lauren has aMFA in creative writing fromAntioch University. Her writing has appeared inNew York Magazine,The Paris Review,The New York Times,Vanity Fair,Los Angeles Magazine,Elle,Flaunt Magazine,The Rumpus, andSalon, among others. Her work has also been widely anthologized, includingThe Moth Anthology andTrue Tales of Lust and Love.[citation needed]
Lauren is a regular storyteller withThe Moth and has performed at numerous spoken word and storytelling events across the United States. She did aTEDx Talk aboutadoption and identity atChapman University in 2014. She has been interviewed on such television programs asThe View,Good Morning America, andThe Howard Stern Show, among others.[citation needed]
Lauren has blogged at MSNBC Today Moms andThe Huffington Post.[citation needed]
Lauren grew up inLivingston, New Jersey, and graduated in 1991 fromNewark Academy.[7] She later moved to New York City, where she briefly studied acting atNew York University.[8]
Lauren is married to musicianScott Shriner of the bandWeezer. They live in Los Angeles with two adopted sons, their first, a boy fromEthiopia who was adopted on January 23, 2009.[9]
