Alyson Richman

Alyson Richman is a USA Today bestselling and #1 internationally bestselling American historical novelist, the author of books including The Lost Wife, The Garden of Letters and The Velvet Hours, published across twenty-seven languages. She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in art history and Japanese studies and received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, and is herself a trained painter -- a background that shows up directly in novels built around art, craft and historical research, most notably The Lost Wife, a World War II love story separating and eventually reuniting a husband and wife across sixty years, which has been in development as a film. She lives on Long Island, New York, with her family. In this catalogue she appears as one of two co-authors, alongside Sofia Lundberg, credited with M.J. Rose on The Friday Night Club (2023), a dual-timeline novel centered on Swedish abstract-art pioneer Hilma af Klint and her circle of female painters -- a natural fit for Richman's recurring interest in art history and the hidden lives of women artists.