Jennette McCurdyis the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Half His Ageand 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. A #1 New York Timesbestseller, the book has spent more than one hundred weeks on the list and sold more than four million copies. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Half His Age,is a #1 international bestseller and a #2 New York Timesbestseller, with the Washington Postcalling it 'hilarious, gross, disturbing and poignant' and the New York Timespraising the novel as 'cementing McCurdy's standing as a talented writer, articulating vulnerability with guts, humour and just the slightest whisper of warmth.' Her work has been published in more than thirty languages. McCurdy has adapted Half His Agefor the screen and is set to direct the film.