Sunny Hostin
Full Name
Sunny Hostin
Job Title
4x Emmy Award-winning co-host of ABC’s “The View” and  New York Times best-selling author
Speaker Bio
Sunny Hostin is a four-time Emmy Award-winning legal journalist, two-time New York Times bestselling author, and co-host of The View. On May 2, 2023, Sunny released the second book in her “Summer” trilogy, “Summer on Sag Harbor,” which became an instant New York Times bestseller. In May 2021, Hostin released her debut novel, "Summer on the Bluffs" (William Morrow), which skyrocketed to #11 on The New York Times Bestseller List and is currently being adapted into a series as the first major project for Sunny Hostin Productions alongside Octavia Spencer’s Orit Entertainment for Amazon MGM Studios. The third novel in the series, “Summer on Highland Beach” was released on May 28, 2024. In the fall of 2020, Hostin released her memoir, “I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds,” with HarperOne. Hostin has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Woman, Essence, The CUT, Latina, and Ebony, amongst others. A sought-after public speaker, she has spoken at and moderated panels for the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Corporate Counsel Women of Color, and the National Bar Association, served as a witness at the Federal Judiciary’s Congressional Hearing for the Public’s Right of Access to the Courts, and she was part of the groundbreaking ABC primetime newscast, “Soul of a Nation,” the first broadcast network newsmagazine aiming to put Black life in America front and center. Hostin lives with her husband and two children in New York.