Susan Elia MacNeal

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Susan Elia MacNeal is the author of the New York Times, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today-bestselling Maggie Hope mystery series, starting with the Edgar Award-nominated and Barry Award-winning MR. CHURCHILL'S SECRETARY, which is now in its 23rd printing. She is also the author of MOTHER DAUGHTER TRAITOR SPY.

The Maggie Hope novels have been nominated for the Edgar, the Macavity, the ITW Thriller, the Barry, the Dilys, the Sue Federer Historical Fiction, and the Bruce Alexander Historical Fiction awards. The Maggie Hope series is sold worldwide in English, and has also been translated into Czech, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Turkish, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian and are also available in large print and audio. The film and television rights to the series are currently with Warner Bros.

MacNeal graduated cum laude and with departmental honors in English from Wellesley College and cross-registered for courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard University and studied fiction writing at the 92nd Street Y.

MacNeal is married and lives with her husband and their son in Park Slope, Brooklyn.