<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Website </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> paulahawkinsbooks.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Paula Hawkins (born 26 August 1972) is a Zimbabwe - born British author, best known for her best - selling psychological thriller novel The Girl on the Train (2015), which deals with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse . The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016 . Hawkins' second novel, Into the Water, was released in 2017 . </P> <P> Hawkins was born and raised in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and financial journalist . Before moving to London in 1989 at the age of 17, Hawkins attended Arundel School, Harare, Zimbabwe then studied for her A-Levels at Collingham College, an independent college in Kensington, West London . Hawkins read philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, University of Oxford . She worked as a journalist for The Times, reporting on business . She then worked for a number of publications on a freelance basis, and wrote a financial advice book for women, The Money Goddess . </P>

The author of the girl on the train