Ann Scott (born 3 November 1965, Paris, France) is a French novelist. She is regarded as a social realist for her novels which paint detailed portraits of contemporary youth haunted by teenage boredom, drugs, materialism and sexual transgression. Her second novel Superstars has given her a cult status in France.

Biography

She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a news photographer of Russian descent, and her father, a French businessman and art collector.

At age 16, she moved alone to London, England where she became a musician, playing drums with local punk bands. At 18, she turned to fashion modelling for three years and was one of the first tattooed fashion model to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties.

She is now a fiction writer and the author of six novels including Superstars which has become a cult novel translated in several countries. She also publishes short stories in magazines and co-wrote Paradize for French band Indochine for their album of the same title.