![]() ![]() ![]() Ryan still remembers how she used to stay up late reading R.L. As the youngest of three siblings she used to rifle through the bookshelves of her sisters and this is probably how she started reading romance while she was still very young. Growing up, Carrie Ryan used to read everything and anything that she could get her hands on. ![]() She has also collaborated with her husband in writing the “Map to Everywhere” series of novels. She currently lives with her lawyer/writer husband in Charlotte, North Carolina. With the novels in her debut series becoming so popular, “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” was optioned to be made into a major motion picture. Once she published that blockbuster novel, she has never looked back and now has more than a dozen novels across different series. Ryan published the “Forest of Hands and Teeth,” her debut novel that spawned her first series of novels in 2009. She would then go on to practice as a lawyer before she quit to become a full time author. The Greenville South Carolina raised author went to Williams College and then proceeded to earn her degree in law from the School of Law at Duke University. Carrie Ryan is a New York Times bestselling author of mystery, children’s fiction, and young adult fantasy. ![]()
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