Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0

A novelist and journalist who began writing for Seventeen and The New York Times while still a teenager, and whose second novel, To Die For, drawn from the Pamela Smart murder case, became a 1995 Gus Van Sant film. Her 1998 memoir At Home in the World, describing her relationship with J. D. Salinger decades earlier, drew wide attention and controversy; her later novel Labor Day was adapted into a 2013 film directed by Jason Reitman.