She was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia to Korean parents. She is a Korean-American.

[1] She graduated
from Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies in 1998.[2][3] She attended
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[4] and later earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The
New School, from which she graduated in 2006.[5] Han resides in Brooklyn, New York City.[4]

Career[edit]
Han wrote her first book, the children's novel Shug, while she was still in college.[6] Shug is about Annemarie
Wilcox, a twelve-year-old trying to navigate the perils of junior high school.[7] Her next project was a young adult
romance trilogy, about a girl's coming-of-age during her summer breaks. The three novels, The Summer I Turned
Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You, and We'll Always Have Summer, quickly became New York Times Best
Sellers.[8]

To All the Boys trilogy[edit]

In 2014, Han released a young adult romance novel, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, about Lara Jean Song
Covey, a high school student whose life turns upside down when the letters she wrote to her five past crushes
are sent out without her knowledge.[9] The novel was optioned for a screen adaptation in the weeks following its
debut.[10] The sequel, P.S. I Still Love You, was released the following year, and won the Young Adult 2015–2016
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.[11] A third novel, Always and Forever, Lara Jean, was released two
years later.[12] The film adaptation of the first novel, starring Lana Condor in the lead role, began filming in July
2017 and was released by Netflix in August 2018, to positive reviews.[13] She had a brief cameo in the film.

Bibliography[edit]
Children's books

 Shug (2006) ISBN 978-1416909422
 Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream (2011) ISBN 978-0316070386
The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy

 The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009) ISBN 978-1416968238

 It's Not Summer Without You (2010) ISBN 978-1416995555
 We'll Always Have Summer (2011) ISBN 978-1416995586
Burn for Burn trilogy

 Burn for Burn (2012) ISBN 978-1442440753

 Fire with Fire (2013) ISBN 978-1442440784
 Ashes to Ashes (2014) ISBN 978-1442440814
To All the Boys trilogy

 To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2014) ISBN 978-1442426702

 P.S. I Still Love You (2015) ISBN 978-1442426733
 Always and Forever, Lara Jean (2017) ISBN 978-1481430487