Tawni O'Dell is an American novelist. Her debut novel was an Oprah's Book Club selection, and has been optioned for a Film of the Book, with Adrian Lyne attached to direct as of 2013.
Her novels include
Some of the tropes appearing in her work include:
- Ripped from the Headlines: The mine disaster in Coal Run is based in part on the disaster in Centralia, Pennsylvania.
- Working-Class Hero : Her novels are set among rural Pennsylvania's coal and mill workers.
