Emma Cline signs $2M book deal

The media world was abuzz last week with news of the $2 million three-book deal signed by Sonoma’s Emma Cline. Cline also sold the movie rights to top Hollywood producer Scott Rudin (“Social Network,” “Twilight,” and dozens of other successful films.)

Cline’s not-yet-published first novel, “The Girls,” is based loosely on the young women in Charles Manson’s family.

Cline, 25, graduated from Sonoma Academy in 2006 and Middlebury College in Vermont in 2010. She received a master’s in fine arts from Columbia University, and worked in the fiction department of The New Yorker magazine. In 2014, she made the news, winning The Paris Review’s 2014 Plimpton Prize for Fiction.

Cline is one of the seven children of Fred and Nancy Cline of Cline Winery.