Ellen Marie Wiseman

Ellen Marie Wiseman is a New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction novels including The Plum Tree, What She Left Behind, Coal River, The Life She Was Given, The Orphan Collector, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, and The Lies They Told. Born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in Northern New York, she is a first-generation German American who discovered her love of reading and writing in first grade at one of the last one-room schoolhouses in New York State. Her novels, translated into twenty-two languages and sold worldwide with over two million copies in the US alone, often explore suspenseful historical sagas about everyday people facing extraordinary circumstances and social injustices.