Olivia Gentile (edit name/settings)

Olivia Gentile is an American author. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Harvard in 1996. She earned an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Columbia in 2003.

Her first book, Life List, was published in April 2009 by Bloomsbury USA and tells the true story of Phoebe Snetsinger, a housewife and cancer survivor from St. Louis who saw more bird species than anyone in history.

Previously, Gentile was a reporter for The Hartford Courant (1999–2001) and The Rutland Herald (1996–1999). She supported herself while writing Life List by working as a part-time assistant to a federal judge in Brooklyn, the Hon. Raymond J. Dearie.