Jennifer Niven is a New York Times and international best selling American author who is best known for the 2015 young adult book All the Bright Places.Niven grew up in Richmond, Indiana. As well as writing novels, Niven has also worked as a screenwriter, journalist and an associate producer at ABC Television.Her first two books were non-fiction narratives called The Ice Master (published in 2000) and Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (published in 2003). In 2010, she published a memoir of her years in high school called The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town.