They announced the renewal on July 26, 2018. You came out for the first time and premiered on television in 2018 on September 9.īefore the official series premiere, Lifetime also announced that You had been given the green light and would be going on to make a second season. It had put placed onto a fast track for development as well. It was two years down the line that it was also announced that this series had been purchased by the network Lifetime. You has done well and in February of 2015 there was an announcement that a television series would be developed by Sera Gamble and Greg Berlanti based on the book. Check this series out for yourself if you are looking for something interesting to enjoy! The third novel to come out is titled Providence and was released in 2018. The second novel in this series would be published two years later in 2016 and is titled Hidden Bodies. This series first became available to readers in 2014, which is when the debut novel was released. Kepnes currently resides in Los Angeles and divides her time between California and her original home, Cape Cod.Ĭaroline Kepnes is the creator and the author of the fictional You series. On top of being an author, she has even worked for Entertainment Weekly as their entertainment reporter. She later would get her undergraduate degree in the field of American civilization. Once she graduated, she attended Brown University. The author had not only lost her father but had gone through other personal challenges at that point in her life. She explains that the book was composed during one of the darker times of her life. The book deconstructs some romantic and comedy tropes that have been featured in different series or movies by making the main male lead a stalker with violent tendencies. She says that obviously You had dark tones to it. and in 2014 was named one of the best books of the year by Suspense Magazine. You made a short list for the New Blood Award, given out by the C.W.A. The novel was a major success and did so well that it was translated into over a dozen languages.

Hailing from Cape Cod in the state of Massachusetts, Caroline officially became an author with the release of her fictional first book You.

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