A Little Life
A Little LifeHanya Yanagihara
Characters in A Little Life
10 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Jude St. Francis
A brilliant, deeply damaged litigator at the center of the group, haunted by a traumatic past.
Supporting characters
Willem Ragnarsson
A warm, aspiring actor and Jude's closest friend.
Harold
Jude's former law professor who becomes a father figure to him.
JB (Jean-Baptiste Marion)
A sharp, ambitious painter and one of the four college friends at the novel's center.
Malcolm Irvine (A Little Life)
An architect frustrated with his career, part of the central friend group.
Malcom Irvine
Jean-Baptiste (JB) Marion
Julia Altman
Andy Contractor
Richard Goldfarb