Who wrote the famous book 'Gone Girl'?

Gillian Schieber Flynn (born February 24, 1971) is an American writer. Flynn has published three novels, 'Sharp Objects', 'Dark Places', and 'Gone Girl', all three of which have been adapted for film or television. Flynn wrote the adaptations for the 2014 'Gone Girl' film and the HBO limited series 'Sharp Objects', and was co-screenwriter of the 2018 heist thriller film Widows. She was the show-runner of the 2020 science fiction drama series 'Utopia'. She was formerly a television critic for 'Entertainment Weekly'.

Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in midtown Kansas City's Coleman Highlands neighborhood. Both of her parents were professors at Metropolitan Community College–Penn Valley: her mother, Judith An, was a reading-comprehension professor, and her father, Edwin Matthew Flynn, was a film professor. She has an older brother, Travis, who is a railroad machinist. Flynn was "painfully shy" and found escape in reading and writing. When she was growing up, Flynn's father would take her to watch horror movies.

Flynn attended Bishop Miege High School and graduated in 1989. She attended the University of Kansas, where she received her undergraduate degrees in English and journalism. She spent two years in California, writing for a trade magazine for human resources professionals, before moving to Chicago and attending Northwestern University for a master's degree at its Medill School of Journalism in 1997.