Julie Lythcott-Haims is the New York Times bestselling author of: How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a popular TED talk; Real American, which illustrates their experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces and won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award; and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, which is considered a "groundbreakingly frank" guide to adulthood. They hold a B.A. from Stanford, a J.D. from Harvard Law, an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Puget Sound. They live in Palo Alto, California with their partner of close to forty years. They are parents to two twenty-somethings, one of whom lives with them.