Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett is an American writer. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times best-seller. In 2016, The New York Times said The Mothers is "shaping up to be one of the fall’s biggest literary debuts, with an initial printing of 108,000 copies and starred reviews in Booklist, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly." Bennett has been named to the National Book Foundation "5 under 35" list of promising debut novelists, and Vogue said Bennett's "nonfiction essays, from a history of black dolls and the racial privileging of innocence for the Paris Review blog to a post about white intention on Jezebel that generated more than a million hits in three days, recall Ta-Nehisi Coates [with] a similar ability to contextualize the present moment in a bigoted past." Bennett earned an English degree from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan.