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Ali Hazelwood
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Pseudonymous American romance novelist and former neuroscience professor whose novels focus on women in STEM; her debut The Love Hypothesis became a New York Times bestseller and film.
Biography
Ali Hazelwood is a pseudonymous American romance novelist and a former neuroscience professor. Many of her works center on women working in STEM fields and on academic settings, exploring relationships and professional life within those environments.
Her debut novel, The Love Hypothesis (2021), achieved wide commercial success as a New York Times bestseller and was later adapted into a 2026 feature film. Hazelwood’s fiction commonly draws on scientific and academic contexts, featuring characters who are scientists, graduate students, and professors, and often engages themes of career ambition, mentorship, and romantic relationships within academia.
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Books by Ali Hazelwood
The Love Hypothesis
The Love Hypothesis follows third-year PhD candidate Olive Smith, who enters a fake relationship with a young professor, Adam Carlsen, to convince a friend she is dating. As their staged arrangement draws them closer, Olive’s career faces complications after a science conference goes awry and their experiment with attraction becomes increasingly real.