Samantha Hunt (born May 15, 1971) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer. She is the author of The Dark Dark and The Unwritten Book, published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux; The Seas, published by MacAdam/Cage and Tin House; and the novels Mr. Splitfoot and The Invention of Everything Else, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Source: Wikipedia (en)