Bonnie Garmus #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, creative director, copywriter, and speaker who talks about her books, the writing process, and resilience.

Lessons In Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus’s first novel, was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by readers, spent 99 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into more than forty languages. The novel follows Elizabeth Zott, a chemist at Hastings Research Institute during the early 1960s where she works on an all-male team who take a very non-scientific approach to equality. But Elizabeth Zott does not accept their idea of what women can do and is fired because of it. She reluctantly re-invents herself as the host of Supper at Six, a TV cooking show, which soon becomes the most-watched television show in the nation. It is on television that Zott uses the power of chemistry to dare women not only to believe in themselves, but change the status quo. Lessons in Chemistry was adapted into a series on Apple TV+ starring Academy Award-Winner Brie Larson.

Peck & Peck, Bonnie Garmus’s forthcoming book, follows the story of Batter Gray, a recent college graduate without a plan who moves to New York City in the early 1980s. After a string of minimum wage jobs, he gets a position at the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world–where he is paid even less. But everything about Peck & Peck shouts originality, making it a true outlier in a world of copycats, plagiarists, and a one-size-fits-all mentality. Still, being an outlier takes guts, and Peck & Peck’s thirty-nine editors have it—or did—until the bombastic Salton Peck took over. Now, these editors, each an expert in “something,” must find a way back to why their work matters—not just to poetry (which no one seems to like)—but to humanity itself. But how? Enter Batter Gray. Button pusher. Dreamer. Regular revolutionary.

As a speaker, Bonnie Garmus utilizes her background in creative direction and copywriting to bring thought-provoking, lively, and witty conversations to audiences across the globe. She touches on her countless rejections, the power of constructive anger, how to build resilience in the face of all the naysayers, and why, although everyone will tell you to write what you know, you should do anything but.

An open-water swimmer and rower, Bonnie also loves dogs, travel, hiking, and her family.

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