Dolly Alderton is a British author and screenwriter, born on 31 August 1988. She is also a renowned columnist for The Sunday Times. Her memoir Everything I Know About Love won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. This critically acclaimed memoir was adapted into a BBC/Peacock television drama series.

Alderton is an award-winning journalist and has contributed to publications such as GQ, Red, Marie Claire, and Grazia. From 2017 to 2020, she co-hosted the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low alongside journalist Pandora Sykes.

Her first book, Everything I Know About Love, became a top five Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication. Her first novel, Ghosts, was published in October 2020 and also became a top five Sunday Times Bestseller.