Author: Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover is one of the most read English-language novelists working today, though her career did not start there. She was raising three sons and working in social work in Sulphur Springs, Texas, when she wrote her first novel Slammed at night for her own enjoyment in 2012. She self-published it. Readers found it. A handful of follow-up books over the next few years gave her a steady audience. The bigger turn came around 2020, when BookTok readers began sharing her older novels in waves. It Ends With Us and Verity in particular travelled across the platform fast, and within two years Hoover had become the bestselling fiction author in the United States, regularly holding several spots on the New York Times list at once. Her writing sits mostly in contemporary romance, with frequent moves into psychological suspense and young adult coming-of-age. Recurring strands include first love, mental illness, complicated family relationships, and the difficulty of leaving abusive partners. Some books are emotional and hopeful. Others are darker. Verity and Layla lean into thriller territory. November 9, Maybe Someday, and Confess are gentler romances. It Ends With Us is the title most readers encounter first, often because of its honest treatment of domestic violence. Outside writing, Hoover runs The Bookworm Box, a charity subscription box that donates proceeds to families in need. She still lives in Texas with her family. Her work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over twenty million copies worldwide.