Laura Dave was born in New York City on July 18, 1977 and raised in Scarsdale, New York. Laura Dave is an American novelist who began her interest in writing when she was in elementary school. Dave graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, with a BA in English. She has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Virginia's Creative Writing Program. She has received many awards for her writing including the AWP Intro Award for Short Fiction. After graduating from school, Laura Dave worked as a freelance journalist for ESPN. Laura Dave has written "London Is America's Best City" and "The Divorce Party." Her latest novel, The Last Thing He Told Me, was released in 2021 and immediately became a #1 New York Times bestseller, staying on the bestseller list for 36 weeks. Dave's stories and articles have been published in the New York Times and New York Observer.