Sara Shepard author page

Sara Shepard biography

Sara Shepard writes young adult, adult and middle-grade fiction. Her young adult work includes the Pretty Little Liars series, The Lying Game, The Perfectionists and The Amateurs series. Her adult novels include The Heiresses, Reputation and The Elizas.

Pretty Little Liars is a 16-book series. Shepard has written more than thirty novels in total, and her career also includes work in screenwriting and podcasting.

For middle-grade readers, Shepard created the Penny Draws series. Penny Draws a School Play is the second book in that highly illustrated series about a girl who doodles to cope with anxiety; it was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, with a hardcover and ebook publication date of 5 September 2023 and a paperback publication date of 6 May 2025.

Shepard has also written young adult thrillers beyond Pretty Little Liars. Tell Me Everything begins a young adult thriller series about a lonely teenager who builds an AI chatbot to take revenge on an ex-best friend.