American
Rachael Lippincott is an American author of young adult fiction. She became widely known for her debut novel Five Feet Apart (2018), a romance between two teenagers with cystic fibrosis who must stay apart in a hospital. She wrote it with screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, who also wrote the script for the 2019 film adaptation. The book reached the New York Times bestseller list and sold in many countries. Lippincott has since published other teen romances, including All This Time, The Lucky List and She Gets the Girl. Her books centre on first love, illness and loss, and are told in short chapters and plain, emotional language. Her work belongs to the teen illness romance wave that followed John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and it reaches a large readership of young adults.