Talks & Entertainment

Unforgettable for her roles in the coming-of-age movies Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club, Molly Ringwald goes from the stage to the page as she mines the complexities of relationships in When it Happens to You, her literary debut.

Ringwald follows a Los Angeles family and their friends as they negotiate the terrain of everyday life, revealing the deceptions, heartbreak, and vulnerability familiar to us all. Their lives converge and diverge in unexpected ways, showing the universality of loss, love, and the search for connection.

Ringwald began acting at age 13 with her Golden Globe nominated performance in The Tempest. She currently stars in The Secret Life of the American Teenagerand is the bestselling author of Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family and Finding the Perfect Lipstick.