Jay Asher's career as a children's author started in his first year of college when he wrote and published three children's … See more

The novel was published in trade paperback format by Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Random House, on June 14, 2011. Thirteen Reasons Why had remained in hardcover long past th… See more

Hannah Baker The subject of the novel. She is a seventeen-year-old, high school sophomore who is sexually abused and harassed, which leads to her taking her own life and leaving behind seven double-sided cass… See more

High school student Clay Jensen receives a mysterious package in the mail with seven cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who has recently died by suicide. The tapes have also been sent to several oth… See more