Allison Pataki
Auteur de The Accidental Empress
A propos de l'auteur
Allison Pataki grew up in upstate New York and attended Yale University, where she graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor's Degree in English. While at Yale, she received Distinction in the Major from the English department and served as a campus reporter and news anchor for the student-run campus afficher plus television program, YTV News. The daughter of former New York State Governor George E. Pataki, Allison was inspired to write The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America, now a New York Times Bestseller, based on the rich Revolutionary War history of her hometown in New York State's Hudson Highlands. Allison spent several years writing for television and digital news outlets prior to transitioning to fiction. The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America is Allison's first novel and it made The New York Times bestseller list in 2014. In 2015, her novel The Accidental Empress became listed on The New York Times bestseller list as well. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Allison Pataki
The Queen's Fortune: A Novel of Désirée, Napoleon, and a Dynasty That Outlasted an Empire (2020) 182 exemplaires
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1984
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- Yale University
- Relations
- Pataki, George (father)
Pataki, Libby (mother) - Organisations
- reConnect Hungary (co-founder)
- Courte biographie
- Allison Pataki (born in 1984) is an American author and journalist.
Pataki was born in New York, and is the daughter of former New York State Governor and 2016 presidential candidate, George Pataki and his wife Libby (née Rowland). Allison attended Yale University, where she majored in English. She met her husband, David Levy, during her sophomore year at Yale, and they married in June 2012.
In 2015, Pataki co-founded reConnect Hungary, an educational and social immersion program for young adults of Hungarian heritage, who are born in the United States or Canada, to gain a better understanding of their Hungarian heritage
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Critiques
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: A Novel par Allison Pataki
This is like the East Coast, prudish version of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo—not entirely as exciting as the time period in which she lived and experienced.
Free spirited Margaret Fuller fights against the stereotypes and expectations of women. After spending a summer with Ralph Waldo Emerson, she quickly becomes one of his confidants. Through her connection with Emerson she meets many of the famous writers and Transcendentalists of the era. However, she longs for romance, and a story of her own.
The book started pretty slow. It took a while for me to get into the story and characters. I enjoyed reading about Fuller's time in Europe, however that was only a short part of the novel. I also enjoyed learning about famous novelists and how their lives were entwined. Overall,, 3 out of 5 stars.… (plus d'informations)
The book started pretty slow. It took a while for me to get into the story and characters. I enjoyed reading about Fuller's time in Europe, however that was only a short part of the novel. I also enjoyed learning about famous novelists and how their lives were entwined. Overall,, 3 out of 5 stars.… (plus d'informations)
Another fascinating Historical Fiction by Allison Pataki about a relatively unknown 19th century woman. She was an intelligent woman who was home schooled by her father. She was revered by some of the best known writers of their time, Emerson, Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The explores.in life from the age 26 through her untimely death at 40. She was a thinker and and a doer and if she lived her she would have been as well known as Susan B. Anthony.
The explores.in life from the age 26 through her untimely death at 40. She was a thinker and and a doer and if she lived her she would have been as well known as Susan B. Anthony.
I work as a librarian and not too long ago, while working on a project in the 19th-century literature section, I came across a very old set of books written by one Margaret Fuller. I felt the same kind of curiosity the author of this novel certainly felt, especially once one learns that Fuller was friendly with more well-known figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more. I also appreciated her life story, which involves plenty of professional struggles (particularly when one Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May, forgot to pay her) and a late in life love story. Overall, I like this novel and I feel like I gained a greater understanding of 19th-century American literature from it.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 2,277
- Popularité
- #11,270
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 216
- ISBN
- 77
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 5
