Annejet van der Zijl (born 6 April 1962) is a well-known and widely read writer in the Netherlands.

Annejet's writing career began in 1998, when she made her debut with Jagtlust, a reconstruction of the illustrious artists’ colony of the same name in the Netherlands’ Gooi region.

The book has been translated into many languages and become an international bestseller, especially in the United States, where it was published in 2019 under the title The Boy Between Worlds.

In 2015, she published De Amerikaanse prinses, a reconstruction of the eventful life of Allene Tew, the American godmother of Princess Beatrix, which occupied the top of the bestseller list for weeks.

An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew, became a Wall Street Journal bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year in 2019 by Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel in The Guardian.

The film rights have been bought by Joop van de Ende, and the book will serve as the basis for a Dutch-British television series.

This story became the prelude to the transatlantic family chronicle Fortuna’s kinderen (Fortune’s Children), which was published in the Netherlands in the autumn of 2021.