Jennifer Vanderbes is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and screenwriter whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. Her debut novel, "Easter Island," was named a best book of 2003 by "The Washington Post" and "The Christian Science Monitor". She followed this success with "Strangers at the Feast," praised by "O, The Oprah Magazine" as a thriller exploring themes of guilt and justice, and "The Secret of Raven Point," which "Vogue" described as "unputdownable" and "The New York Times" called "gripping." Her forthcoming nonfiction work, "Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims," is set to be published by Random House and HarperCollins UK.
Vanderbes's writing spans multiple genres, including historical fiction, literary thrillers, and investigative nonfiction. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in prominent publications such as "The New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal", and "Granta". She has received prestigious accolades from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the New York Public Library, and was named a 2019–2020 NEH Public Scholar for her research on "Wonder Drug." A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Vanderbes resides in New York City with her two daughters.