Who wrote The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, the 1990 Twin Peaks tie-in novel?

Jennifer Lynch wrote The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, a 1990 tie-in novel to Twin Peaks.

The book is presented as Laura Palmer’s private diary and explores events in her life before her murder. It gives readers additional background about Laura’s relationships, fears, drug use, and encounters with disturbing supernatural forces. The diary therefore adds interior detail that the television series could only reveal gradually through other characters and evidence.

Jennifer Lynch is the daughter of Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch. Although she wrote the book, it is not the same as David Lynch’s 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The novel and film overlap in subject matter but are separate works with different structures and emphases.

The diary is often confused with Laura’s diary as depicted in the series. In the story, Laura keeps the diary; outside the fiction, Jennifer Lynch is the real-world author of the published book.