Allison Pataki

Allison Pataki grew up in upstate New York and attended Yale University, where she graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor's Degree in English. While at Yale, she received Distinction in the Major from the English department and served as a campus reporter and news anchor for the student-run campus television program, YTV News. The daughter of former New York State Governor George E. Pataki, Allison was inspired to write The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America, now a New York Times Bestseller, based on the rich Revolutionary War history of her hometown in New York State's Hudson Highlands. Allison spent several years writing for television and digital news outlets prior to transitioning to fiction. The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America is Allison's first novel and it made The New York Times bestseller list in 2014. In 2015, her novel The Accidental Empress became listed on The New York Times bestseller list as well.