J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of The New York Times bestselling novelsCommencement and Maine. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine and a Washington Post Notable Book of 2011. Courtney's writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review. Elle, Glamour, Allure, and The New York Observer, among others. She is a contributor to the essay anthology The Secret Currency of Love and co-editor of Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.