Kaui Hart Hemmings (born 1975) is an American writer.
[4] Her debut novel, The Descendants, was published in 22 countries and was a New York Times bestseller.
[6] It was adapted into the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney and written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash.
[7][8][9] Hemmings previously published a collection of stories, House of Thieves.
She has written two other novels for adults, The Possibilities (2014) and How to Party With an Infant (2016), and one for young readers, Juniors (2015).