Molly Jong-Fast is the 28-year-old author of the weirdly popular cult novel Normal Girl and Girl Maladjusted (both published by Villard). She has written for The New York Times, The Times of London, Cosmo, The New York Observer, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, British Elle, and many other newspapers and magazines. She has an MFA from Bennington College. She recently chronicled her wedding for Modern Bride magazine. She lives in New York City with her husband, her child, and Pete, the world's fattest cat.

Molly is currently working on her third book a novel called The Social Climber's Handbook which is due out from Villard in 2009. She is addicted to needlepoint. Her mother wrote Fear of Flying, her grandpa wrote Spartacus, and her great great grandfather was a herring merchant. Her website is www.mollyjongfast.com and her myspace page is http://www.myspace.com/mollyjongfast.

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