Allison Pataki is the New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress,Sisi,The Queen's Fortune, and The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, as well as the nonfiction memoir Beauty in the Broken Places. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. A former news writer and producer, Pataki has written for The New York Times,USA Today, and other outlets. She has appeared on Today,Good Morning America,Good Day New York, and MSNBC's Morning Joe. Allison Pataki graduated cum laude from Yale University and lives in New York with her husband and family.
“What a woman! What a story! Whether exploring Margaret’s remarkable friendships or delving into her crucial legacy as a journalist, writer, and feminist, Finding Margaret Fuller promises to transform every reader it touches—much like Margaret Fuller herself.”—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Personal Librarian “Pataki digs into the fascinating and all-too-short life of Margaret Fuller, a trailblazing 19th-century writer whose circle of contemporaries included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini, and the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In Pataki’s skilled hands, all of those historical figures and more come alive on the page, bringing rich context to the colorful tale of Fuller, who defied social convention to become both one of her era’s most esteemed writers and a founding inspiration of the women’s rights movement. . . . all of us who later benefitted from the march toward equal rights for women should read this book, which honors an early feminist icon who broke nearly every rule laid out for her and in doing so, inspired a generation and led the way into a brighter future with courage and heart.”—Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Daughter “Literature lovers rejoice! Finding Margaret Fuller is a novel in which all of your heroes appear as characters, the most formidable being Margaret herself, a woman who had the courage and smarts to stand at the center of Transcendentalism and inspire a generation of American thought. Allison Pataki’s writing is at once gentle and propulsive. I couldn’t put this one down.”—Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script “A fascinating novel that brings this lesser-known transcendentalist writer to life in all her complicated brilliance and beauty . . . Filled with hope and love, heartbreak and sorrow, this book about the true mother of the American women’s rights movement is not to be missed.”—Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost