Allison Pataki

Allison Pataki is an American author and journalist who writes historical novels, including The Accidental Empress and The Traitor's Wife, which turns to the woman behind Benedict Arnold. Her other novels include The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Sisi, Empress on Her Own, Where the Light Falls, and The Queen's Fortune, and she has also written the memoir Beauty in the Broken Places. Finding Margaret Fuller is a historical novel about the nineteenth-century writer Margaret Fuller.