Marya Justine Hornbacher (born April 4, 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist. Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was twenty-three. This is the book which originally brought attention to Hornbacher. It has been translated into sixteen languages and sold over a million copies in the U.S. Source: Wikipedia (en)