The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor, a job that becomes nightmarish as she struggles to keep up with her boss's grueling schedule and demeaning demands.

It spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list and became the basis for the 2006 film of the same name, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt.

She gets a surprise interview at the Elias-Clark Group and is hired as junior assistant for Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Runway.

At a celebrity party, Andrea meets Christian Collinsworth, a charismatic Yale graduate who is considered one of the hot, new up-and-coming writers of their generation.

She promises to place phone calls to people she knows at the New Yorker on Andrea's behalf once her year is up and suggests she take on some small writing assignments at Runway.

Miranda is pleased, and says her future in magazine publishing is bright, but phones with another impossible demand at Christian Dior's Paris fashion show.

She works on short fiction and finances her unemployment with profits made from reselling the designer clothing she was provided for her Paris trip.

At the novel's end, she returns to the Elias-Clark building to discuss a position at one of the company's other magazines and sees Miranda's new junior assistant, who looks as harried and put-upon as she once did.

"[11] Maslin avoided naming either the magazine where Weisberger had worked or the woman on whom she allegedly modeled her main character,[12] a practice the Times continued when the film was released.

It was produced by Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump), freely adapted for the screen by Aline Brosh McKenna and directed by David Frankel.

[15] The Associated Press stated, "The book successfully sprinkles pop culture tidbits to keep up the breezy tone...for this summer, it's a pleasant, entertaining read in a tabloid magazine sort of way.

"[18] BookReporter wrote, "The reader is pulled into the glitz and glamour reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller The Devil Wears Prada and the movie adaptation.

In 2015, it was reported that Broadway producer Kevin McCollum (Rent, Avenue Q amongst others) had signed a deal two years earlier with Fox to develop some of the films from its back catalog into musicals for the stage.

Early in 2017, it was officially announced by McCollum that in partnership with Fox Stage Productions and Rocket Entertainment,[22] a musical version of The Devil Wears Prada (influenced by both the film and the book) would be produced.

Joining Williams and Henry are Georgie Buckland as Andy, Amy Di Bartolomeo as Emily, Rhys Whitfield as Nate, and James Darch as Christian.