Kiley Reid
1987–
American novelist born in Los Angeles and raised in Tucson, Arizona. She studied theatre at the University of Arizona before transferring to Marymount Manhattan College, and spent six years looking after the children of wealthy Manhattan families. She later took an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Truman Capote Fellowship. Her debut, Such a Fun Age (2019), follows a young Black babysitter in Philadelphia accused of kidnapping the white toddler in her care. Her second novel, Come and Get It (2024), followed. Such a Fun Age was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
Works
- Such a Fun Age (2019)
Prizes
- Such a Fun Age — The Booker Prize 2020: Longlist