The TV series "Dietland" is based on a novel by what author?

The TV series Dietland is based on a novel by author Sarai Walker.

Walker’s Dietland was her debut novel, published in 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It follows Plum Kettle, a ghostwriter for a popular teen magazine who struggles with body image, dieting culture, and society’s treatment of fat women. The novel begins as a sharp examination of beauty standards before developing into a darker story involving an underground feminist collective and vigilante activism.

AMC adapted the book into a television series created by Marti Noxon. The show premiered on June 4, 2018, with Joy Nash playing Plum and Julianna Margulies portraying magazine editor Kitty Montgomery. Like the novel, the series combines dark comedy, social criticism, and revenge-fantasy elements rather than following a conventional romantic or makeover plot.

Dietland was a limited one-season series with 10 episodes. AMC cancelled it in September 2018 after its first season. A common mix-up is crediting Marti Noxon as the author; Noxon created the television adaptation, while Sarai Walker wrote the original novel.