Ariel Lawhon

Author

Ariel Lawhon is an American historical fiction author whose novels bring remarkable real women to vivid life. She is a New York Times bestselling author who lives in the rolling hills outside Nashville, Tennessee. She is the co-founder of the popular book blog She Reads. Lawhon's novels focus on extraordinary women whose stories have... been overlooked or under-told by history. Code Name Hélène is based on the true story of Nancy Wake, one of the most decorated women of the Second World War — an Australian journalist turned French Resistance leader who became the Gestapo's most wanted person. Her other historical novels include I Was Anastasia (about Anna Anderson's claim to be the surviving Romanov princess), The Frozen River (about midwife Martha Ballard), and The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress. Her fiction combines deep research with compelling narrative drive and a gift for inhabiting historical figures as full human beings. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers gripping historical fiction that rescues extraordinary women from the margins of history and gives them the spotlight they deserve. Read more Show less