Alice Oseman is a British author and illustrator of young adult fiction, born on 16 October 1994 in Chatham, Kent. She published her debut novel, Solitaire, at nineteen, and followed it with the standalone novels Radio Silence, I Was Born for This and Loveless, alongside the novellas Nick and Charlie and This Winter. In September 2016 she began posting Heartstopper, a webcomic about two boys at an English grammar school, which she both writes and illustrates. Hachette Children's Group acquired the print rights in 2018 and published it as six graphic novels between February 2019 and July 2026, when the series concluded. Oseman was writer, creator and executive producer of the Netflix adaptation, which ran from 2022 to 2024 and closed with a feature-length film in 2026. She was named Illustrator of the Year at the 2023 British Book Awards.
