Allison Pataki is the New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress, Sisi, Where the Light Falls, and The Queen's Fortune, as well as the nonfiction memoir Beauty in the Broken Places and two children's books, Nelly Takes New York and Poppy Takes Paris. Allison's novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. A former news writer and producer, Allison has written for The New York Times, ABC News, HuffPost, USA Today, Fox News, and other outlets. She has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Good Day New York, Good Day Chicago, and MSNBC's Morning Joe. Allison graduated cum laude from Yale University, is a member of The Historical Novel Society, and lives in New York with her husband and family.
“This is an absolutely terrific novel. If you want to know more
about the twentieth century, it’s all here . . . and if you want to
be inspired by a brilliant, gorgeous, and powerful woman, then
Marjorie Post fits will fill the bill. . . . Pataki manages to make
every chapter in this long and complicated life fascinating.
Marjorie’s love life is as enthralling as it is heartbreaking. Her
four successive husbands are unequal to the task of truly loving a
woman of such wealth and power. She never admits defeat, however,
and ultimately embodies the ideal of a true American
hero.”—Historical Novel Society
“Allison Pataki takes the reader on a luxurious ride filled with
jet-setting locales and opulent mansions, while deftly revealing
how Marjorie Post’s humble beginnings fed her desire to become a
new kind of heiress, forging her own way through the world and
keenly aware of her legacy.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times
bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post is a richly detailed and
impeccably researched triumph. Historical fiction readers will love
this immersive and sweeping tribute to the fascinating Marjorie
Merriweather Post.”—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling
author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
“With remarkable expertise, Allison Pataki has given literary voice
to this legendary and remarkable historical figure. Here is an
intriguing plunge into the very soul of a woman who walked both the
hard and the beautiful roads of life and deserves to be remembered.
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post is transportive fiction at
its best!”—Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Nature of
Fragile Things
“Allison Pataki has written a fascinating novel about one of
Washington’s most formidable female figures.”—Nancy Rubin Stuart,
author of American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie
Merriweather Post
“Chock full of stranger-than-fiction moments . . . Pataki’s story
doesn’t skimp on Post’s dazzling adventures—there’s big money, big
houses, and big jewelry at almost every turn—but it takes pains to
present a private side of Post and establish her as more than just
an heiress. . . . Post’s not just any historical titan. She was
larger-than-life in her own time.”—Town & Country
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