Saman­tha Greene Woodruff spent near­ly two decades work­ing on the busi­ness side of media, pri­mar­i­ly at Viacom’s Nick­elodeon, before leav­ing cor­po­rate life to become a full-time mom. In her new­found ​“free” time, she took class­es at the Writ­ing Insti­tute at Sarah Lawrence Col­lege, where she acci­den­tal­ly found her call­ing as a his­tor­i­cal fic­tion author. Sam’s debut nov­el, The Lobotomist’s Wife, was a #1 Ama­zon best­seller and First Reads pick. Her writ­ing has appeared in Newsweek, Writer’s Digest, Female First, Read 650 and more.