Pekkanen, who has three sons-ages 9, 16 and 18-was born in New York City and moved to Bethesda with her family when she was 4. “And for Richard, Leonardo DiCaprio could be an intriguing choice.” “Naomi Watts and Scarlett Johansson would be a dream,” she says. The Hollywood Reporter compared it to Paula Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train, and Pekkanen already has thought about who she’d love to see star in the movie. Pekkanen co-authored her eighth and latest novel, The Wife Between Us, with her former editor, Greer Hendricks, and the two recently received the news that many novelists hope for: Their psychological thriller was optioned for a movie by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, an arm of DreamWorks. All of her books have gone into multiple printings, and her best-sellers have sold a couple hundred thousand copies worldwide. “It meant a lot that she would take the time to write it.”įorty years later, Pekkanen is an internationally best-selling author who has published seven books in seven years, including The Perfect Neighbors, which People magazine called “a delicious beach read.” Pekkanen’s novels focus on the important relationships in a woman’s life, she says: sisters, spouses, new and old friends. While her early submissions weren’t picked up, she received “one very nice letter from an editor in New York who told me to keep going and that I’d have a book published one day,” Pekkanen recalls. “One was a mystery, à la Nancy Drew,” she says.
She was pursuing her dream to be a novelist.
When Sarah Pekkanen was a young girl, she sent stories to book publishers on three-ring binder paper. What she does: Novelist and short-story writer
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