Saman­tha Greene Woodruff has a BA in his­to­ry from Wes­leyan Uni­ver­si­ty and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Busi­ness. She spent most of her career telling sto­ries to exec­u­tives at MTV Net­works as the senior vice pres­i­dent of strat­e­gy and busi­ness devel­op­ment and, sub­se­quent­ly, audi­ence research for the Nick­elodeon Kids & Fam­i­ly Group. The Lobotomist’s Wife is her first his­tor­i­cal fic­tion novel.