Melanie Benjamin
Photo Credit: Deborah Feingold
Melanie Benjamin was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. An avid reader all her life—as a child, she was the proud winner, several years running, of the summer reading program at her local library—she still firmly believes that a lifetime of reading is the best education a writer can have. While attending Indiana University—Purdue University at Indianapolis, Melanie performed in many community theater productions before meeting her husband, moving to the Chicago area and raising two sons. Writing was always beckoning, however, and soon she began writing for local magazines and newspapers before venturing into her first love, fiction. As Melanie Hauser, she published two contemporary novels. By incorporating her passion for history and biography, Melanie, now writing as Melanie Benjamin, has finally found her niche writing historical fiction, concentrating on the "stories behind the stories." ALICE I HAVE BEEN is her first historical novel; she is currently at work on her second, also to be published by Delacorte Press. She and her family still live in the Chicago area; when she's not writing, she's gardening, taking long walks, rooting for the Cubs— And reading, of course.
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Series
Books:California Golden, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Mistress of the Ritz, June 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Girls in the Picture, January 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Swans of Fifth Avenue, February 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Grand Central, July 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Aviator's Wife, January 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Autobiography Of Mrs. Tom Thumb, August 2011
Hardcover
Alice I Have Been, January 2010
Hardcover
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