Her first book by Lockhart was a novel, The Boyfriend List, published by Random House Dell Delacorte Press in 2005. Jenkins writes as E. Lockhart for the young adult market "Lockhart" was the family name of her mother's mother. She went to Vassar College-where she studied illustrated books and interviewed Barry Moser for her senior thesis -and graduate school at Columbia University, where she earned a doctorate in English literature. She attended Lakeside School, a private high school in North Seattle. In high school she attended summer drama schools at Northwestern University and the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Jenkins grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Seattle, Washington. She is known best for the Ruby Oliver quartet (which begins with The Boyfriend List), The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and We Were Liars. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-BanksĮmily Jenkins (born September 13, 1967), who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction.The Boyfriend List (Ruby Oliver series).
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