Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde is an American novelist and short story writer, born in 1955, who writes about ordinary people recovering from hard times. Her best-known novel, Pay It Forward, follows a boy whose school project starts a chain of kindness, and it was adapted into a film of the same name. Her other novels include Take Me with You, Don't Let Me Go, and When I Found You, and her short stories have won many awards and honors.