Amy Wallace is best known for collaborating with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her bestselling memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. The book has been a worldwide sensation, and garnered four awards (including the top prize, Book of the Year) at the 2026 British Book Awards.
Previously, Wallace also collaborated on two other books: Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company (Simon & Schuster, 2021), by Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric and Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Bantam, 2014), with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation.
Wallace spent 11 years the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. During that period, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes.Since then, Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist on creativity and innovation ("Prototype") for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio.
Wallace’s magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles – "Hollywood’s Information Man" (Los Angeles, 2001) and "Walking Time Bomb" (New York, 2019) – have been nominated for a National Magazine Award.
