J.D. Vance Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

J.D. Vance Biography

J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he contributed to the National Review and the New York Times. He worked at leading Silicon Valley investment firms before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2023. In July 2024, he was nominated as the Republican candidate for Vice President.

Vance is the author of the 2016 nonfiction book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, based on his life growing up in Kentucky. It was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2017 Audie Award for Nonfiction. In 2020, Netflix released a movie based on the book, directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.

Vance lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and three children.

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