Lynn Freed ni mwandishi anayefahamika kwa kazi zake za riwaya, insha na hadithi. Lynn Freed alizaliwa na kukulia Durban, Afrika Kusini. Alienda New York akiwa mwanafunzi wa shahada ya pili akipokea shahada ya uzamili na shahada ya uzamivu ya Fasihi ya kiingereza kutoka chuo kikuu cha Colombia. Baada ya kuhamia San Francisco , aliandika riwaya yake ya kwanza Heart Change (iliyochapishwa tena kama Friends of the Family). Tokea hapo, amechapisha riwaya nyingine sita: Home Ground, The Bungalow, The Mirror, House of Women, The Servants' Quarters na The Last Laugh. Ana mkusanyiko wa hadithi fupi,The Curse of the Appropriate Man na mikusanyiko miwili ya insha: Reading, Writing & Leaving Home: Life on the Page na The Romance of Elsewhere.[onesha uthibitisho] Hadithi fupi za Freed na insha zimetokea katika Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Santa Monica Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Mirabella, Elle (magazine)|Elle, House Beautiful, '[House & Garden (magazine)|House & Garden, Travel & Leisure na Vogue (magazine)|Vogue, miongoni mwa nyingine.