Jessica Shattuck

Jessica
Shattuck

Jessica Shattuck is the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the CastleThe Hazards of Good Breeding, a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award, and Perfect Life. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, Mother Jones, and Wired, among other publications.

Jessica Shattuck is the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the CastleThe Hazards of Good Breeding, a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award, and Perfect Life. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, Mother Jones, and Wired, among other publications.

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