Colleen Hoover

American · b. 1979

Colleen Hoover self-published her first novel while living in a single-wide trailer, working social services for $9 an hour. A decade later TikTok made her the best-selling novelist alive — It Ends with Us alone passed 8 million copies — built on her mother's escape from her violent father: 'you are the reason it doesn't end with me.'