Cylin Busby


Cylin Busby is an author and screenwriter, known for the best-selling true crime memoir, The Year We Disappeared, written with her father John Busby.

Early life

Born the youngest of three children, Cylin grew up in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1979, her police officer father, John Busby, was seriously injured in a shooting. During the resulting investigation, the family was relocated and lived in hiding for five years. Cylin and John co-wrote a memoir about the experience which went on to become a best seller, placing at #3 on the nonfiction lists for The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly. The book also earned #1 best seller placement on Amazon's nonfiction list. Their memoir was featured in 2009 on the CBS television program 48 Hours in an episode titled Live to Tell: The Year We Disappeared and was optioned for a motion picture in 2014.

Education and career

Cylin graduated from Hampshire College. Her publishing career began at Random House. She would later work at HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster as a children’s book editor. In 2000, she relocated to Los Angeles where she began working as the Senior Editor of Teen Magazine. She has written more than 20 books for young readers and is published in 15 countries.

Personal

Cylin lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her latest novel is the YA thriller, THE STRANGER GAME. HarperCollins announced the publication of her first picture book, THE BOOKSTORE CAT, for October 2020.

Awards and recognition

For The Year We Disappeared
For Blink Once
For The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs
For The Stranger Game

Fiction

  1. The Campfire Crush
  2. The Dance Dilemma
  3. Ski Trip Trouble

    Anthology

Screenplay: "Rebecca and Quinn Get Scared"