SUSAN HIGGINBOTHAM is the author of five historical novels. The Traitor's Wife, her first novel, is the winner of ForeWord Magazine's 2005 Silver Award for historical fiction and is a Gold Medalist in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards for Historical/Military Fiction. Higginbotham has worked as an editor and an attorney and lives in North Carolina with her family.
""In ""Hanging Mary,"" Susan Higginbotham creates a compelling and vivid portrait of the women caught up in the events surrounding Lincoln's assassination. I will not soon forget Mary, Anna, or Nora, the real woman Higginbotham so deftly brings to life. This is my favorite kind of historical fiction: evocative, deeply moving, and meticulously researched."" - Jillian Cantor, author of Margot and The Hours Count