Holly Goldberg Sloan (born 1958) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and New York Times bestselling novelist.
Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to psychology professor Lewis R. Goldberg and architect mother Robin Montgomery.
She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and after working briefly at Grey Advertising in New York City, moved to Los Angeles where she sold her first screenplay at 24 years old.
Sloan was the screenwriter on Steve Irwin's feature film for MGM The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002).
It was Amazon's best book of the year for middle graders and has spent over forty weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Sloan's first novel written for an adult audience, titled "Pieces of Blue", was published in May of 2023 from Flatiron (Macmillan).