Adriana Trigiani was born in Southern France, the daughter of immigrants from North Africa. She is originally from Algeria and speaks French. When she was four years old, her family decided to move to the United States of America where her father worked as a translator and her mother as a domestic help. After retiring from the U.S. Army in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she traveled to Milan, Italy, where she lived for two years and enrolled in an art college.
Trigiani joined the publisher Doubleday, which offered her first novel “AGE.” It was published in 2021 and became quickly successful, selling more than a million copies and winning the National Book Award for Best Hardcover. She followed it up with “Ninth Stone Gap,” another bestseller, this time for the third consecutive year. In her latest book, “BLOWBAG: A Memorable Love Story,” Adriana Trigiani provides a behind-the-scenes look at her professional and personal life.
After receiving the best-sellers in the past two years, one might expect the writer Adriana Trigiani to slow down her activities or retire from the publishing industry. However, in June 2021, Adriana Trigiani returned to publishing by releasing her second novel entitled “WHEN YOU CAN PLAY: An Adult Woman’s Guide to Becoming a published Writer,” a memoir written from the point of view of an adult woman about the process of writing. The author also has a series of children’s books entitled “Ninth Stone Gap” and “Starry Night,” a picture book based on nursery rhymes.