Jaycee Lee Dugard is an American author and survivor of a long-term kidnapping case that garnered worldwide attention. Born on May 3, 1980, Dugard was abducted on June 10, 1991, at the age of eleven, from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California, United States.

Despite extensive searches following her disappearance, Dugard remained missing for over 18 years. In 2009, she was discovered alive when her captor, Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender, visited the University of California, Berkeley campus with two adolescent girls, later revealed to be his biological daughters with Dugard.

Upon investigation following the unusual behavior of the trio, Garrido's parole officer ordered him to bring the girls to a parole office in Concord, California. Dugard was identified, leading to the arrest of Garrido and his wife, Nancy, who had confined Dugard in the backyard of their Antioch, California home. During her captivity, Dugard gave birth to two daughters.

Garrido and his wife pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping Dugard. Investigators discovered that Dugard had been kept in concealed tents, sheds, and lean-tos, where she was repeatedly abused. Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life imprisonment, and his wife received 36 years to life.

Following her reappearance, Dugard sued the state of California for lapses in law enforcement oversight of her captor and was awarded $20 million. She also wrote an autobiography titled A Stolen Life: A Memoir in 2011 and a second book, Freedom: My Book of Firsts, in 2016.