About the Authors

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of twenty novels. His books have been translated into forty languages with over 25 million copies in fifty-one countries and consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times, USA Today, and indie bestseller lists. His honors include the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and the Anne Frank Human Writes Award. He is an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board.

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books including Midwives, The Red Lotus, and The Sandcastle Girls. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages and three have become movies. He is also a playwright and screenwriter, and his novel The Flight Attendant is now an HBO Max limited series starring Kaley Cuoco.

Megan Chance is the nationally bestselling, critically acclaimed author of several novels. She’s won over fifteen awards for her work. Her novel Bone River was an Amazon Book of the Month, The Spiritualist was chosen as one of Borders Original Voices, and An Inconvenient Wife was a Book Sense pick. She has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Katherine J. Chen is the author of Mary B. Her work has been published in Lit Hub and Los Angeles Review of Books. She has a forthcoming novel on Joan of Arc (Random House).

Fiona Davis is the nationally bestselling author of historical fiction set in iconic New York City buildings, including The Lions of Fifth Avenue, The Chelsea Girls, and The Address. Her books have appeared on the Indie Next List, been LibraryReads Picks and theSkimm Reads Pick of the Week, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. You can sign up for email updates here.

    

Jamie Ford’s debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His second book, Songs of Willow Frost, was also a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages (he’s still holding out for Klingon, because that’s when you know you’ve made it). His latest novel is Love and Other Consolation Prizes.

Kristin Hannah is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books including The Nightingale, which has been published in forty-three languages and is currently in movie production at TriStar Pictures. It was voted the best historical novel of the year by the People’s Choice Awards and Goodreads. Her latest novel, The Great Alone, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and is in development for a major motion picture at TriStar. Her novel Firefly Lane is in production at Netflix for a limited series.

Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven novels including Orphan Train, which spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list and was published in forty countries. Hundreds of communities, schools, and universities have chosen it as a One Book, One Read selection. Her recent novel, A Piece of the World, an instant New York Times bestseller, was awarded the 2018 New England Prize for Fiction and the 2018 Maine Literary Award.

Paula McLain is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, and Love and Ruin. Her work has been published in thirty-four countries. McLain has been credited with revitalizing the historical novel through The Paris Wife, which has more than 1.5 million copies in print. McLain has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the author of two collections of poetry and a memoir.

Alyson Richman is the #1 international bestselling author of seven novels including The Velvet Hours, The Garden of Letters, and The Lost Wife, which is currently in development for a major motion picture. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and have reached the bestseller charts in several countries. Alyson has met with more than a hundred book clubs, and her novels are consistently chosen by the Jewish Book Council.

M. J. Rose is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty novels including The Book of Lost Fragrances and Cartier’s Hope. Her last eleven novels have all appeared on the Indie Next List. The Fox television series Past Life was based on M. J.’s novel The Reincarnationist. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. She is also the founder of AuthorBuzz.com and the cofounder of 1001DarkNights.com and Blue Box Press. Sign up for email updates here.

    

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Wench. In 2011, she was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction. In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight Olive Titles, limited-edition modern classics that included books by Edward P. Jones, Louise Erdrich, and Zora Neale Hurston. Dolen received a DC Commission on the Arts grant for her second novel, Balm, which was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Dolen is a 2020 nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship. Dolen serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She is currently an associate professor in the Literature Department at American University.

Lisa Wingate is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty books including Before We Were Yours, her most recent, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for two years and counting. She’s the recipient of the 2018 SIBA Southern Book Prize, the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction, the LORIES Best Fiction Award, the Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Booklover’s Reviewers’ Choice Award. Before We Were Yours was a 2018 National Book Festival selection.