Colleen Hoover (born Margaret Colleen Fennell) is a contemporary American writer in the new adult and young adult genres. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels and three novellas and contributed to two anthologies. In August 2022, USA Today named her the queen of the best sellers list.
Colleen Hoover lives in a small town in east Texas just outside Sulphur Springs. She worked as a social worker for several years before becoming a counselor at WIC, a nutrition program for women, children, and infants. While at WIC, Hoover began to pursue her writing career.
Hoover published her first novel, Slammed, in January 2012. It would become her first book to appear on USA Today's Best-Selling Books list. Since then, all her full-length novels have become New York Times and USA Today's Best Sellers.
Hoover has explored different genres in her novels. She has written thrillers and love stories with twists and turns involving heartbreak and mental health struggles. Some of her books were inspired by Hoover's social work career. Many of the author's storylines involve emotionally intense situations, including sexual violence, surviving trauma, infertility, and abusive relationships.
She is best known for the standalone contemporary romance "It Ends With Us" (2016). It is one of Hoover's most popular and well-received novels with a classic love triangle. The novel has written to advocate for domestic violence victims and was inspired by personal childhood experiences, said Colleen Hoover.
Journalists have tried to uncover the secret of Hoover's success and concluded that her sales surge could be attributed partly to her massive popularity on TikTok, particularly in the platform's #booktok subculture. Publishers Weekly chronicled the phenomenon when Hoover's 2016 book "It Ends With Us" started climbing the bestsellers lists in 2020.
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