Molly Jong-Fast

ABOUT MOLLY JONG-FAST

Professional novelist and journalist who's best known for her books Normal Girl and The Social Climber's Handbook. She has also worked as a columnist for The Forward and as a contributor to The Bulwark.

She wrote articles for Mademoiselle, Marie Claire and British Elle.

She authored the popular 2004 memoir Girl, Maladjusted.

Her mother Erica is a famous novelist and her father Jonathan is also an author. She married educator Matthew Greenfield and has three children.

Edna Ferber and James Patterson are other prominent novelists who became celebrities.