Amy Griffin (author)

Amy Griffin is an American venture capitalist and author who founded G9 Ventures. Her 2025 memoir The Tell was an Oprah Book Club pick in March 2025 and became a New York Times bestseller later that month.

Life

Griffin was born and grew up in Texas. Her father was CEO of Toot'n Totum, a Texas-based chain of convenience and auto-service stores. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
In her twenties, she worked in marketing and promotions at Sports Illustrated magazine. At 27, she married John Griffin, founder of hedge fund Blue Ridge Capital, on May 3, 2003.
In 2017, Griffin created G9 ventures, where she has helped to coordinate deals including Blackstone’s investment into Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine and Bumble’s IPO in 2021.
In 2021, she became a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Works

In early 2025, Griffin published a book The Tell, about her experiences with processing trauma as a survivor of sexual abuse. The book became a New York Times Bestseller and was featured on Oprah’s book club in March 2025. In September 2025, some concerns came to light about the veracity of the claims Griffin made in her book.

Debate about the book's realism arose partially because her memory of childhood sexual abuse in the 1980s was achieved through the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.