Bonnie Garmus

American · b. 1957

Bonnie Garmus was a 64-year-old copywriter when Lessons in Chemistry — begun in fury after a meeting where a male colleague took credit for her idea — became the best-selling debut of its year. Her heroine Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who refuses every costume the 1960s hands her, made Garmus publishing's favorite late-bloomer story.