The Manson Family's Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten
Random House took first prize this week in the annual competition for Hypiest Debut Acquisition, sealing a three-book deal — beginning with The Girls, a novel based loosely on the Manson murders — with Emma Cline, 25, for a rumored $2 million and change.
The author, her agent, and her new editor declined to comment, as did Scott Rudin, who bought film rights just before the sale. But on the evidence of a handful of personal essays and two published short stories — a meditation on Greenland in Tin House and a tween girl’s scary coming of age in The Paris Review — Cline’s talent is glaringly obvious. But her life is a little opaque, at least by millennial standards: no Twitter account, no confessional blog, not even a website. She may have simply been too busy living an improbably precocious quarter-life to bother with self-promotion. Below is an ad-hoc biographical timeline, as far as we know.
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