Jenna Bush Hager

Jenna Bush Hager works across television, authorship, and literary advocacy, with writing that often returns to family memory, grief, and the stories passed between generations. After joining NBC’s Today in 2009, she became a cohost of its fourth hour and founded the Read with Jenna book club in 2019. Everything Beautiful in Its Time gathers personal essays about her paternal grandparents, former president George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush, and her maternal grandmother, Jenna Welch. William Morrow published the memoir in 2020 under the expanded subtitle Seasons of Love and Loss. Bush Hager writes as both a granddaughter preserving particular voices and a parent considering what her children will inherit from those relationships. That focus connects the book to her broader work with relatives, including projects created with her mother, Laura Bush, and her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush. Her publishing and broadcast roles meet in an interest in how books make private experience shareable without losing its family roots.