Who is Marya Hornbacher?
Marya Hornbacher is an American novelist and memoir writer. Her debut book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (1998), was highly acclaimed and groundbreaking in its honest account of the day-to-day horrors of living with an eating disorder. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and has sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone. In 2005, Marya Hornbacher published her first novel, The Center of Winter, about a family dealing with the suicide of the father. Written from the point of view of three very different but equally compelling characters, Hornbacher’s novel was also well received by critics and readers alike. Marya Hornbacher was born on 4 April 1974 in Walnut Creek, California, but she grew up in Minnesota, where The Center of Winter is set. Her parents worked in the theatre as actors and directors. In Wasted, Hornbacher recounts that her struggle with poor body image began at the age of five, and that she was bulimic by the age of nine and anorexic at 13. She also de
