Amy Gutman (born November 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude, and thereafter became a journalist, working at the Wilson Quarterly in Washington, DC, and The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee. She then worked in several positions for newspapers in Mississippi before co-founding the Mississippi Teacher Corps. She then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1993 and working for the firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Parcher, Hayes & Snyder in New York City. In 2001, she published her first novel, Equivocal Death. her second, The Anniversary, was published in 2003. She currently^[when?] works in alumni relations for Harvard Law School.