Marti Leimbach
 Marti Leimbach (born July 16 1963) is an American fiction writer. Her first novel Dying Young (1990) was an international bestseller and the basis of the film Dying Young starring Julia Roberts Campbell Scott and Vincent D'Onofrio.Marti Leimbach's other novels include Sun Dial Street (1992) and Love and Houses (1997) after which she took time away from writing when her youngest child was diagnosed with autism.