Author

Brit Bennett

6 books, mostly bipoc literature, for Listening Library and Penguin Audio, 2016–2023

Brit Bennett is an American novelist and essayist who was born and raised in Southern California and earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, The Mothers, became a New York Times bestseller, followed by The Vanishing Half, an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel, and she also created the American Girl character Claudie Wells.