Cari Lynn is a journalist and author. She won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, which Nicholas Kristof called “stunning” in the New York Times. The book is in the curriculum at numerous universities, included UCLA School of Law, University of Michigan and Hofstra’s school of Public Health. The book is currently in development for a TV series from John Wells Productions and Warner Bros.
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors and One Woman’s Fight for Justice received international attention and was presented at the United Nations and The Hague, as well as Cornell, Columbia, Loyola Law School, Brandeis, Vanderbilt, and Brown.
Cari wrote the narrative nonfiction book Leg the Spread: Adventures in the Trillion-Dollar Boys’ Club of Commodities Trading after spending two years “undercover” in the vicious, open-outcry trading pits of Chicago. Receiving a Starred Kirkus review, the book was featured in numerous publications, from
The Economist to O, The Oprah Magazine, and was named Readers’ Choice by Elle magazine. Cari was featured on CNN, PBS and NPR, and Leg the Spread has been optioned by a major studio for a TV or film adaptation.
Other books include the story of a doctor who rescued orphans from third-world countries, the story of a real-life Dr. Dolittle, and numerous ghost-written books for business leaders. Cari also wrote a historical novel, Madam.
She’s written for the Wall Street Journal, O:The Oprah Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, Health, Good Housekeeping, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and was a frequent contributor to Deadline Hollywood. Her short fiction has appeared in Nikki Finke’s Hollywood Dementia.
Cari received an M.A. in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.