In her gripping new novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, tells the unforgettable story of the legendary 1970s rock band Daisy Jones & The Six in her own unique way.
The book’s remarkable publishing success also led to its television adaptation, co-produced by Reese Witherspoon.
Taylor Jenkins Reid grew up in Akron, Massachusetts. After completing her studies, she moved to Los Angeles, where she continues to live with her husband and their daughter.
Reid initially worked in the film industry as a casting assistant.
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s debut novel, Forever, Interrupted, was published in 2013. It was followed by After I Do (2014), Maybe in Another Life (2015), and One True Loves (2016).
In 2017, she published The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, an ambitious and subversive portrait of the life of a former Hollywood star. The novel brought her wider recognition and experienced a slow but steady rise to commercial success, eventually reaching The New York Times bestseller list in January 2021.
Her next novel, Daisy Jones & The Six (2018), explores the mythology of the past through the story of a fictional rock band and its talented lead singer, presented in an oral-history format resembling a documentary. The book was an immediate success, won awards, and is being adapted for television by Amazon Studios in co-production with Reese Witherspoon.
In 2021, Reid released her most recent novel, Malibu Rising.
Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six. Their records spun on turntables everywhere, their concerts filled stadiums across America, and their sound defined the 1970s. And then, suddenly, on July 12, 1979, at the height of their fame, the band announced its breakup.
No one has ever truly learned why. The only thing certain is that when Daisy Jones walked barefoot onto the stage of the Whisky, something in the band seemed to have changed…
Here is the story of the extraordinary rise and fall of Daisy Jones & The Six: ambition, desire, disappointment, and, of course, music. Everyone was there — but everyone remembers it differently.