Emma Straub

Born to best-selling horror author Peter Straub and his wife Susan, Emma Straub's rise to the bestseller lists started in 2008, when her first short story, "Some People Must Really Fall In Love," was published in The Saint Ann's Review. She continued to have stories published in periodicals, amny of which were gathered in the collection Other People We Married (2012). Her first novel was brought to bookstores later that same year: Laura Lamont's Life In Pictures (2012) told the story of a Hollywood starlet and followed her career from the 1920s through the 1970s. The drama garnered mostly positive reviews but didn't make much of a mark in sales. By contrast, her next novel, The Vacationers (2014), a contemporary serio-comic tale of a New York family on vacation in Mallorca, was extremely well-received. The book debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list at #18, and was picked by reviewers in Entertainment Weekly and People Magazine as one of the most popular books of the summer book season. Straub's fiction and nonfiction were published in Vogue, New York Magazine, Tin House, The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, and the The Paris Review Daily, among other outlets, and she was a staff writer for Rookie. She also made brief appearances in Noah Baumbach's art house hit "The Squid and the Whale" (2005) and the documentary "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields" (2010).