Emily Henry

Emily Henry is an American author who is best known for her New York Times bestselling romance novels Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, Book Lovers, and Happy Place.

Henry lives and writes in Cincinnati and Kentucky's Northern Ohio River region. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the now-defunct New York Center for Art & Media Studies. She is a full-time writer and proofreader.

Her debut young adult novel, The Love That Split the World, was published in January 2016. After writing several young adult novels, Henry's first adult romance novel, Beach Read, was published in 2020 to widespread success. Her books have been featured in BuzzFeed, O, The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Skimm, Shondaland, and more. She has continued to write adult romance novels, publishing People We Meet on Vacation in 2021 and Book Lovers in 2022. Her most recent novel, Happy Place, was published on April 25, 2023. As of March 2023, Henry had sold more than 2.4 million books collectively.

Film adaptations of Henry's first three adult novels are currently in the works. In October 2022, a film adaptation of People We Meet on Vacation by Sony's 3000 Pictures from a screenplay by Yulin Kuang was announced, with Brett Haley directing and Temple Hill producing. On March 28, 2023, a film adaptation of Book Lovers by the production company Tango was announced, with Sarah Heyward attached to write the script. One week later, on April 5, it was announced that Kuang would also write and direct a film adaptation of Beach Read for 20th Century.