Author
E. Lockhart
Associated Country
United Kingdom
Real Name
E. Lockhart is the pen name of Emily Jenkins and is best known for young adult fiction that blends mystery, psychological drama, romance, and emotional intensity. Writing as E. Lockhart, she gained recognition with The Boyfriend List series before achieving international success with We Were Liars, a bestselling psychological mystery celebrated for its suspenseful storytelling and shocking twist.
She later expanded the Sinclair family universe with Family of Liars and We Fell Apart. Her YA fiction is known for sharp dialogue, layered characters, and themes of privilege, identity, family secrets, and grief, establishing her as one of the leading voices in contemporary young adult literature.
She later expanded the Sinclair family universe with Family of Liars and We Fell Apart. Her YA fiction is known for sharp dialogue, layered characters, and themes of privilege, identity, family secrets, and grief, establishing her as one of the leading voices in contemporary young adult literature.
Books
We Fell Apart 2025
We Were Liars, Book 3
We Fell Apart continues the world of the Sinclair family introduced in We Were Liars. Set among privilege, secrecy, and emotional turmoil, the novel follows a new generation confronting fractured...
Family of Liars 2022
We Were Liars, Book 2
Family of Liars returns to the wealthy and secretive Sinclair family years before the events of We Were Liars. Set on the family’s private island, the story follows seventeen-year-old Caroline...
Again Again 2020
If you could live your life again, what would you do differently?
After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into a...
Genuine Fraud 2017
Imogen lives at the Playa Grande Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. She spends her days working out in the hotel gym and telling other guests how she was forced out of Stanford.
But Imogen isn’t...
We Were Liars 2014
We Were Liars, Book 1
We Were Liars is a psychological mystery set on a private island owned by the wealthy Sinclair family. Cadence Sinclair Eastman spends every summer there with her cousins Johnny and Mirren, along with...