Paula McLain is the New York Times best­selling author of six nov­els, includ­ing The Paris Wife, Cir­cling the Sun, and Love and Ruin, as well as two col­lec­tions of poet­ry and a mem­oir. Her work has been pub­lished in over thir­ty-five coun­tries, and fea­tured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Town & Coun­try, Real Sim­ple, and elsewhere.