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Born: 11 December 1979 · Age: 46
Colleen Hoover is 46 years old as of October 2026. She was born on 11 December 1979.
American novelist whose books, including It Ends with Us and Verity, became huge bestsellers thanks to TikTok
Did you know?She was working as a social worker when she wrote her first book.
Colleen Hoover went from social worker to one of the world's best-selling authors. She wrote her first novel for fun and put it online. Readers quickly spread the word. Her romance novels often deal with painful subjects. TikTok users turned her backlist into bestsellers again. At one point she held several top spots on the bestseller list. Her books have been adapted for film. She has also founded a charity that helps people in need in her home town.
Margaret Colleen Hoover (née Fennell; born December 11, 1979) is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 novel It Ends with Us.
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American novelist, born 1979
Colleen Hoover was born in Sulphur Springs on 11 December 1979.
She self-published her debut novel Slammed in 2012.
Her novel It Ends with Us (2016) became a global bestseller.
It was adapted into a film starring Blake Lively in 2024.
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