Jessica Shattuck

Jessica Shattuck is an American author of literary fiction. Her debut novel, The Hazards of Good Breeding, was a finalist for the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and a New York Times notable book in 2003, and she followed it with Perfect Life in 2009. She is best known for The Women in the Castle, a historical novel from 2017 that became a New York Times best seller, and she also wrote Last House, a family story set in New England.