Five-time Emmy Award-winner and two-time New York Times best-selling author Sunny Hostin has been a co-host of The View since 2016. Sunny previously served as a host and legal analyst at CNN, as well as a fill-in co-anchor for ABC News' World News Now and America This Morning. 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. The third book in the trilogy, Summer on Highland Beach, is scheduled to be released in summer of 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, featuring an introspective look into the challenges she faced while being raised by teenage parents in the Bronx housing projects, the many obstacles she overcame to become a federal prosecutor, and her ultimate path to becoming an incredibly successful television journalist.
A gifted storyteller, Sunny's impressive depth of knowledge carries over to politics and the criminal justice system. She has brought clarity and context to some of the biggest stories of the past decade, including incisive political analysis of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent presidency, the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol, the Derek Chauvin trial and verdict, the college admission scandal, the George Zimmerman trial, the unrest in Ferguson and Baltimore, and the AME church shooting in Charleston. In May 2020, Sunny and a group of Black female activists penned an authoritative op-ed for The Washington Post urging presidential candidate Joe Biden to select a Black female vice-presidential candidate, ultimately predicting his selection of Kamala Harris. Sunny has won two Emmys for her work as a correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America, and one for her work as a correspondent for the ABC News Special, The President and the People.
Sunny currently resides in New York with her husband Manny and two children, Gabriel and Paloma.