Sylvia Ann McLain was born in New Orleans and grew up in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. She lived in New Mexico for four years before moving to Oklahoma, where she pursued her career as a college business professor. She now lives in northeastern Oklahoma.
History has always been her first love, and she strives to bring the past to life in her writings. After her first historical novel, "Spinning Jenny,” was published, she was selected as a Featured Author at the Louisiana Book Festival. She has authored three more novels in the series: “Jenny Is Free,” “Jenny’s Dreams,” and “What Margot Saw.”