Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jennifer wrote her first novel at nineteen whilst she was studying Cognitive Science at Yale University. She went on to do post-graduate work as a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, also receiving a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Yale. An expert on the psychology of fandom and the cognitive science of fiction and the imagination, Jennifer is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma. Having sold her first five books whilst still studying, her breakout success came in 2020 with The Inheritance Games, an addictive YA thriller about a girl who unexpectedly comes into a dangerous fortune. A runaway bestseller, the novel spawned two equally successful sequels, as well as a spin-off book entitled The Brothers Hawthorne. Another thriller set in the same universe, The Grandest Game, followed in 2024.