Author

Books by Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett is an American novelist and essayist from South California. Her debut novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times Notable Book and a bestseller. The Vanishing Half (2020) was a number one New York Times bestseller and was selected for Reese's Book Club and Barack Obama's summer reading list. It was also longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Jezebel. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan.