The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is a 1990 spin-off epistolary novel from the television series Twin Peaks by Jennifer Lynch. Lynch, then aged 22, is the daughter of series co-creator David Lynch. It was published between the airing of the first and second season.

The novel is said to be "As seen by Jennifer Lynch," and is written in a matter-of-fact tone from the point of view of Laura Palmer, a small-town teenager —a "good girl gone bad"— who is abused and terrorized by the demonic entity BOB. When Lynch was about 12, she told her father she wanted to find another girl's diary to see if they shared similar feelings or if she was just weird and different. During the production of Twin Peaks, he asked her, 'Do you remember wanting to find that girl's diary?' and then, 'Would you like to write Laura Palmer’s diary?' To which she excitedly agreed. She says she was told by her father and Mark Frost, co-creator of the series, to "be Laura Palmer," and that she "knew Laura so well it was like automatic writing."