Guest Speaker: Taylor Jenkins Reid
⸺ 2026-08-15 | 10 am | Paradox ChurchWe are so excited to be welcoming NYT Bestselling Author, Taylor Jenkins Reid, to speak at our church on Saturday, August 15! She will be discussing her novel, Atmosphere.
ABOUT TAYLOR
Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American author best known for her New York Times Bestselling novels The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017), Daisy Jones & the Six (2019), One True Loves (2016), Malibu Rising (2021), Carrie Soto Is Back (2022), and Atmosphere (2025). Her novels center on women navigating modern society, particularly in male-dominated fields, and her works have been featured in major book clubs and adapted for television and film. Yet many readers remain unaware of one key facet of her identity: Reid is proudly bi.
Born on December 20, 1983, Reid spent her early years in Maryland before relocating, at age 12, to Acton, Massachusetts. As a teenager, she embraced an androgynous style and outspoken demeanor, drawing criticism from peers who would ask her passively aggressively: “Why can’t you dress more like a girl? Why don’t you do your nails? Why do you talk that way? Can’t you be a little bit quieter?”
After graduating from Emerson College with a degree in media studies, Reid moved to Los Angeles, working as a casting assistant and later as a high school educator to make ends meet. A period of writing for the TV show Resident Advisors (2015) left her restless, prompting her to explore the possibility of becoming a fiction writer. She began crafting short stories for friends, eventually writing her first novella at the age of 24 and securing a literary agent.
Her early novels — Forever, Interrupted (2013), After I Do (2014), Maybe in Another Life (2015), and One True Loves — established her as a skilled chronicler of love and loss. These romance-driven dramas, while well-received, were not breakout hits. That changed in 2017 with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, a glittering historical fiction about a fictional Old Hollywood starlet who reveals her bisexuality and lifelong love for another woman, Celia St. James. Structured around interviews with each of Evelyn’s seven husbands, the novel drew inspiration from real-life figures like Elizabeth Taylor and even Tab Hunter.
