Ellen Marie Wiseman

Ellen Marie Wiseman is a New York Times bestselling author known for writing novels based on real historical injustices. Her new novel, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, blends fact and fiction as a young woman searching for her missing sister is mistakenly imprisoned at the notorious Willowbrook State School in 1972. Born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in northern New York, Wiseman is a first-generation German American who discovered her love of reading and writing while attending first grade in one of the last one-room schoolhouses in New York State. Since then, her acclaimed novels have been translated into twenty languages and sold more than one million copies in the United States alone. A mother of two, she lives on the shores of Lake Ontario with her husband and a spoiled Shih-tzu named Izzy. Visit her online at EllenMarieWiseman.com.