Jennette McCurdy

Jennette McCurdy

Two-Time New York Times Bestselling Author

Jennette McCurdy is the two-time New York Times bestselling author of Half His Age and I’m Glad My Mom Died. Her memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died, is the winner of the American Library Association Alex Award and the Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography. The book is a #1 New York Times bestseller, spending more than ninety weeks on the list. It has been published in more than thirty countries and has sold more than four million copies. Her debut novel Half His Age, already a New York Times bestseller and #1 Sunday Times bestseller, was just released to critical acclaim, with The New York Times calling it a “bold and unapologetic novel [that] rewards the fearless reader” and The Atlantic praising McCurdy’s writing as “hard to tear yourself away from.” McCurdy is writing and directing a film adaptation of Half His Age.

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2026-03-24

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