Clarissa Pinkola Estés is a Mexican-American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst born in Gary, Indiana in 1945. She holds a Ph.D. and is best known for her 1992 book Women Who Run with the Wolves, which became a New York Times bestseller and remained on the list for 145 weeks. The book has sold more than 2.7 million copies according to the publisher and was reissued in a 30th Anniversary Edition in 2022.