Jamie McGuire

Jamie McGuire, #1 New York Times and internationally best-selling author was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Tech where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with global sensation Beautiful Disaster. Her follow-up novel, Walking Disaster debuted at #1 in all four categories of the New York Times bestseller list, a first in history for publisher Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. Beautiful Oblivion, book one of the Maddox Brothers series, also topped the New York Times bestseller list. In 2015 and 2016, subsequent Maddox Brothers books, Beautiful Redemption, Beautiful Sacrifice, and Beautiful Burn also topped the New York Times, as well as Beautiful series novellas, A Beautiful Wedding and Something Beautiful. The fifth Maddox Brothers Series novel, A Beautiful Funeral, debuted at #4 on the New York Times, as well as making strong appearances on the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Novels also written by Jamie McGuire include Beautiful Disaster's follow-up, Almost Beautiful; a Maddox Brothers series spin-off, The Crash and Burn series including titles From Here to You, The Edge of Us, and The Art of Dying; award-winning apocalyptic thriller, Red Hill; the Providence series, Providence, Requiem, and Eden, a young adult paranormal romance; Apolonia, a dark sci-fi romance; and several novellas, including Red Hill's companion novella Among Monsters; Happenstance: A Novella Series, and Providence series novellas Sins of the Innocent and Sins of the Immortal. Jamie is the first indie author in history to strike a print deal with retail giant Wal-Mart. Her self-published novel, Beautiful Redemption hit Wal-Mart's shelves in September 2015. Her awards include 2014 UtopYA Best Dystopian Book of the Year for Red Hill, iBooks' 2016 Romance Novel of the Year for Beautiful Burn, and 2017 Romance Author of the Year.