Jennifer Weiner is a Jewish American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Weiner was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, where her father was stationed as an army physician. The next year, her family (including a younger sister and two brothers) moved to Simsbury, Connecticut, where Weiner spent her childhood. Her first novel, Good in Bed

Good in Bed

Good In Bed is the debut novel of Jennifer Weiner. It tells the story of large Jewish woman journalist, her love and work life and her emotional abuse issues with her father. The novel was a New York Times Best Seller.-Plot summary:...

, is loosely based on her young-adult life: like the main character, Cannie Shapiro, Weiner's parents divorced when she was 16, and her mother came out as a lesbian at age 55.