Jennifer Niven

Jennifer Niven is an American author and screenwriter who grew up in Richmond, Indiana. She began with narrative nonfiction, The Ice Master (2000), an account of the doomed 1913 Karluk expedition to the Arctic, and Ada Blackjack (2003), then wrote the memoir The Aqua Net Diaries and the historical Velva Jean series.

Her first young adult novel, All the Bright Places (2015), became a bestseller and was adapted into a Netflix film in 2020; later young adult novels include Holding Up the Universe and Breathless. She has also worked as a journalist and a television producer.