25 Authors and the Book Characters They'd be Best Friends With
25 Authors and the Book Characters They'd be Best Friends With
In celebration of National Girlfriends Day tomorrow, I’m sharing the book characters that these authors would be best friends with.
Lisa Becker
Tibby, Carmen, Bridget and Lena from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I think everyone deserves a group of BFFs with that level of love, support, honesty and acceptance.
Sheena Kamal
Merry or Pippin from Lord Of The Rings. These are my people. We'll eat a few breakfasts, have some ale and tell each other stories about how we vanquished our enemies and saved the world.
Rachel Khong
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Sophie Jordan
Amy from THE MAGIC OF YOU
Hannah Tunnicliffe
I’d be so upset if Anne Shirley Cuthbert Blythe and I weren’t kindred spirits.
Kathleen Glassburn
Gracelin O'Malley
Maria Hummel
Ruth Galloway
Eva Lesko Natiello
Pippi Longstocking
Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
Anne of Green Gables. I think we would be kindred spirits. I grew up a lot like Anne. Not an orphan, but playing outside in the fields and woods and making up all kinds of games and stories. As a child, I had a vivid imagination and a bountiful spirit.
Francesca Hornak
Caroline Bender in The Best Of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Patricia Harman
Laura Ingalls in the Little House in the Prairie books. She a little bit naughty…wants to be good like her sister Mary, but can’t help herself.
Michelle Peach
I think again Bridget Jones. She would make me laugh and I love to laugh. She reminds me of myself when I was single with her social awkwardness, anxieties and self-consciousness. But she has her strengths because she is kind, well-meaning and determined. I would love to know her now that she would be in her fifties. I believe she would be a great and loyal best friend.
Kathy Wang
Bridget Jones!
Marlee Grace
Hermione Granger
Lydia Redwine
Emily Byrd Starr from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Emily trilogy. She is as close to a character as I will ever be. A dreamer and a writer with an infinity for all things beautiful, Emily is wishful and determined to succeed to both writing and learning of being a human. She would understand me better than any other character I can think of.
Simone St. James
Evelyn Hugo from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Jennifer Robson
Eleanor Roosevelt. Assuming I could keep up with her!
Lynda Cohen Loigman
When I was little, I always wanted to be friends with Francie Nolan from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She loved to read, and she used to sit out on her fire escape with a library book and a bowl of peppermint candies. I love to eat candy while I read, so I absolutely think we would have understood each other.
Beth Kendrick
Well, I know I’d be besties with Summer Benson, the heroine who kicked off the Black Dog Bay series. Writing is just a socially acceptable way to have imaginary friends.
Elise Hooper
I’ve always imagined that Anne Shirley and I would have been kindred spirits.
LS Hawker
Elsie Arnold from Nancy Allen's Ozark Mysteries series. She's hilarious, smart, and quirky.
Hallie Heald
Antoinette Conway in The Trespasser by Tana French
Pam Jenoff
Ramona Quimby.
Katy Regan
In terms of the classics, Emma from ‘Emma’ by Jane Austen, too - she seems like a lot of (meddling) fun!
Susan Gloss
Caroline Murphy from Kristy Woodson Harvey's Peachtree Bluff series. She's smart, snarky, speaks her mind, and is loyal.
