Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada, a roman à clef of her experience as a put-upon assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
Weisberger was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to a school teacher mother and a department store president turned mortgage broker father. Her family is Jewish; Weisberger was raised in Conservative Judaism and later Reform Judaism. She spent her early youth in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Scranton. At 11, her parents divorced and she and her younger sister, Mindy, moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, with their mother.