Author

Jeanine Cummins

9 books, mostly literary fiction, for Macmillan Audio and Tinder Press, 2020–2025

Jeanine Cummins is an American author whose writing career began with the true-crime memoir A Rip in Heaven, followed by the historical novels The Outside Boy and The Crooked Branch. She achieved international bestseller status with American Dirt, a novel about migration, and later published Speak to Me of Home, a multigenerational family story. Her work often explores family, identity, migration, trauma, and belonging.