The Plot

The autumn's most thrilling page-turner from the author of The Undoing, the major series on HBO.

'Smart, surprising and stealthily unsettling.' - Sunday Times

'[Korelitz's] gutsiest, most consequential book yet.' - New York Times

'[A] wickedly clever tale of stolen genius.' - LitHub

'A twisty page-turner (yes, I stayed up nearly all night to finish it.)' - Financial Times

Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and educated at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of seven novels, including The Devil and Webster , You Should Have Known (adapted as the 2020 HBO series The Undoing , starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as the 2013 film of the same name, starring Tina Fey, Lily Tomlin and Paul Rudd), The White Rose , The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers . With Paul Muldoon she adapted James Joyce's The Dead as an immersive theatrical event, The Dead 1904 . She and her husband, poet Paul Muldoon, are the parents of two children and live in New York City. A new novel, The Latecomer , will be published in 2022.