I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

(2012) Gone Girl was released in June 2012 and concerns a husband who searches for his wife who disappeared on their fifth wedding anniversary while himself coming under police scrutiny as the prime suspect. Biography
Flynn also referred to as Corman lives in Chicago and grew up in Kansas City Missouri. External links
Official Gillian Flynn Website.

Gillian Flynn (1971 - ) is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly.