Born in Paris in 1970, Anna Gavalda’s first published work was the critically acclaimed collection of short stories I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, which sold over half a million copies in her native France and was published in the US by Riverhead in 2003. She is also the author of Someone I Loved and the international best-selling novel Hunting and Gathering (Riverhead, 2007), which was made into a film starring Audrey Tautou and Daniel Auteil. Gavalda lives in Paris.