User:Jraytram/Amelie Gillette

Amelie Gillette  is a newspaper columnist and television writer. She is currently the author of the weekly infographic The Tolerability Index for The Onion’s A.V. Club and is a writer for The Office. She has written for many publications, including Spin, The Believer, and Blender.

Early Life
Gillette is from New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended New York University, where she wrote for Washington Square News. After graduation, she worked as a freelance writer and taught English in Italy.

The Onion
Gillette has been writing for The Onion's entertainment newspaper The A.V. Club since 2006. She wrote The Hater column as well as The Tolerability Index infograpic. The last Hater column was published in 2010, but she continues to write The Tolerability Index. She has also written headlines for The Onion itself.

The Office
Gillette joined the writing staff of The Office for its seventh season. She had met Office cast member Ellie Kemper a few times prior to joining the Office writing staff, since Kemper was a writer for The Onion as well. Gillette wrote the seventh season episode Todd Packer.