Annie Barrows (born 1962 in San Diego, California) is an American editor and author.

[1] With her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer she co-wrote The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, which was later adapted into a film.

When she was three weeks old the family moved to a small town, San Anselmo, in Northern California.

She spent considerable time during her childhood in the town's children's library, where she eventually got a part-time job while in junior high school, maintaining the books and reshelving them.

Barrows attended UC Berkeley, originally majoring in English Literature, but graduating in Medieval History.