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Meet Kristy
Kristy Woodson Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of a dozen novels including Beach House Rules and The Peachtree Bluff Series. A Happier Life is in development for film with MGM/Amazon, The Summer of Songbirds is in development for television with Hulu, and many of her other projects are in various stages of option or development for film and television. Her work has received numerous accolades, including Good Morning America’s Buzz Pick, Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Reads, Katie Couric’s Featured Books, and Joanna Garcia Swisher’s The Happy Place Reads. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize.
A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate with Honors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s school of journalism, her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Southern Living, Parade, Traditional Home, USA Today, and many more. She also holds a master’s in English from East Carolina University, with a concentration in multicultural and transnational literature.
Kristy is the co-creator and co-host of the hit weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction with fellow New York Times Bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry, which boasts more than three hundred thousand members. She is also the co-founder of the award-winning interiors site Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson.
She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband, son, and dog, Salt, where she is (always!) working on her next novel.
Praise for Kristy Woodson Harvey
“Queen of the beach read.” – Cosmopolitan
“Kristy Woodson Harvey is (the) go-to for elevated beach reads.” – People
“A major new voice in Southern fiction.” —Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author
“(A) southern bestselling sensation.” – Katie Couric Media
“Kristy Woodson Harvey has the voice of a best friend; a storyteller of the finest sort. — Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times Bestselling author of The Secret Life of Flora Lea
“Perfect for: fans of beach reads, P.S. I Love You, and anything by authors Jennifer Weiner and Elin Hilderbrand.” – Country Living
“A rising star of Southern Fiction.” —Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Beach House
“The ‘it girl’ of Southern fiction.” —Daytime Confidential
“One of the hottest new Southern writers.” —Parade.com
“My prediction is that writers come and writers go, but Kristy Woodson Harvey is here to stay. The warmth, wit, and wisdom of this novel pave her way into the exclusive sisterhood of southern writers.” —Huffington Post
