Jessica Shattuck

Jessica Shattuck is an American author. Her debut novel, The Hazards of Good Breeding, was a finalist for the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and a New York Times notable book, both in 2003. She subsequently published the novel Perfect Life, in 2009. Her third novel, The Women in the Castle (2017), became a New York Times best seller.

Life Shattuck graduated from Harvard University in 1994, and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2001.

Works The Hazards of Good Breeding, New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. , Perfect Life: A Novel, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. , The Women in the Castle, London: Zaffre, 2017. ,