Trivia

Former television critic for Entertainment Weekly.

First name Gillian is pronounced with a hard 'G'.

Lost her job as a pop culture writer at Entertainment Weekly magazine in New York during the recession, a fate not unlike that which befell the leads in Gone Girl (2014). (2009)

Father was a film professor, hence Gillian's lifelong love of movies.

Gillian and husband Brett, a lawyer, reside in the Ukrainian Village district of Chicago.

In an interview included on the UK paperback edition of Gone Girl, she claims that she reads Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray once a year.

Holds a BA from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Northwestern University.

Mother, with husband Brett Nolan, of son Flynn Nolan (b. 2010), and daughter Veronica Nolan (b. August 6, 2014).