Melanie Benjamin is the author of The New York Times and USA Today bestselling historical novel, The Aviator's Wife (2013), a novel about Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Her previous historical novels include the national bestseller Alice I Have Been (2010), about Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the character Alice in Wonderland, and The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (2012), the story of 32-inch-tall Lavinia Warren Stratton, a star during the Gilded Age. Her novels have been translated in over ten languages, optioned for film, and featured in national magazines such as Good Housekeeping, People, and Entertainment Weekly. Melanie lives in Chicago, where she is at work on her next historical novel.