Francesca Delbanco

Francesca Delbanco (born May 1974) is an American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for co-creating television series Friends from College (2017–2019) and Platonic (2023–present). Early life and education Delbanco was born in May 1974 and grew up in Bennington, Vermont. She is the daughter of writers and faculty members at Bennington College, Elena (née Greenhouse) and Nicholas Delbanco. Delbanco attended Harvard College, concentrating in history and literature of the United States and writing her senior thesis on William Faulkner's novel Go Down, Moses and concepts of familial honor in the Old South. She also took creative writing workshops, studying with Jayne Anne Phillips, Jamaica Kincaid and Richard Ford, and went on to earn an MFA from the University of Michigan. Career Between college and her MFA program, Delbanco worked in New York City for two and a half years, briefly in publicity for Warner Books, then for Seventeen magazine where she was an editorial assistant, then staff writer. In 2004, Delbanco published a novel, Ask Me Anything.