マリア・センプル（Maria Semple、1964年 - ）は、アメリカの小説家、脚本家。バーナード・カレッジで英文学を学び、卒業後はテレビ脚本家として『Arrested Development』『Mad About You』『Ellen』などの作品に携わった。代表作『バーナデットをさがせ！』（原題 Where'd You Go, Bernadette）はニューヨーク・タイムズのベストセラーリストに1年以上入り、Women’s Prize for Fictionの最終候補となった。かつて建築家として活躍しながら、シアトルで人付き合いを避けて暮らす母バーナデットが突然姿を消し、15歳の娘ビーがメールや手紙などを手がかりにその行方を追う物語で、創作への情熱を失った女性と、その母を理解しようとする娘の関係をユーモアを交えて描いている。
Maria Semple (born 1964) is an American novelist and screenwriter. After studying English at Barnard College, she worked as a television writer on shows including "Arrested Development," "Mad About You," and "Ellen" before turning to fiction. Her novel "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" spent more than a year on The New York Times bestseller list and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The novel follows Bee, a fifteen-year-old girl who pieces together emails, letters, and other clues after her mother Bernadette—a once-promising architect who has withdrawn from life in Seattle—suddenly disappears, combining comedy with a story about a woman trying to recover her creative identity and a daughter determined to understand her.
