"Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that - she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition."
Miranda July

Lena Dunham (28) er filmskaper og skuespiller. Hun skrev og regisserte filmen Tiny Furniture som hadde premiere i 2010, og hun er skaperen og stjernen i HBO-serien Girls . Hun har fått åtte Emmy-nominasjoner, som manusforfatter, regissør, skuespiller og produsent. Hun har vunnet to Golden Globe priser for Girls . Dunham er også den første kvinne som er blitt tildelt en Directors Guild Award for utmerket regi i en komiserie.

"Simply by telling her own story in all its specificity and sometimes embarrassing detail, she has written a book that's as acute and heartfelt as it is funny."
Michiko Kakutani, NY Times