Caroline Ryder is a #1 New York Times bestselling memoir ghostwriter, screenwriter, and novelist based in Los Angeles. A USC Screenwriting MFA and member of the Writers Guild of America, she is known for character-driven, platform-conscious storytelling—work that brings emotional depth to true crime, intelligence to pop culture, and cinematic clarity to narratives built to move fluidly from page to screen.
Her ghostwritten memoirs include Shari Franke’s The House of My Mother, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list; Spencer Pratt’s The Guy You Loved to Hate; Dirty Rocker Boys (named one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Greatest Rock Memoirs); and Give Them Lala, a national bestseller—character-driven narratives that explore the vulnerability, pain, and triumph at the heart of the human experience.
Known for putting subjects at ease while uncovering the emotional core of their stories, she translates raw, lived experiences into voice-driven narratives that resonate with a broad audience. Thanks to her training in screenwriting, she always thinks cinematically when writing books—crafting visual, scene and dialogue-driven stories built for the screen.
She also specializes in book-to-screen adaptations, including a screenplay about painter Mark Rothko developed with his daughter Kate Rothko (adapted from Lee Seldes' biography), and she is currently adapting her #1 New York Times bestseller The House of My Mother for screen in consultation with the subject, Shari Franke.
Before ghostwriting and screenwriting, Caroline spent over a decade as a trusted celebrity interviewer, conducting dozens of high-profile cover interviews for Dazed, Cosmopolitan, BULLETT, Paper, LA Weekly, Variety, and New York Magazine. As an editor at Shepard Fairey's Swindle, she interviewed cultural outliers from Bobby Seale to Larry Clark. She gave Odd Future their first print interview in 2010 and conducted the first solo interview with Die Antwoord's Yolandi Visser in 2015—a track record of spotting cultural shifts early and earning the trust of guarded subjects.
Born to Brazilian and Irish parents and raised in London, she is currently at work on her debut novel, with short fiction published in Dream Boy Book Club, Maudlin House, and The Chestnut Review.
Life is already performance art—she's just here to write the subtitles.
Contact
Serious Inquiries:
Anthony Mattero, CAA
anthony.mattero@caa.com
Friendly Correspondence:
carolineMryder@gmail.com