Introduction
Allison Pataki (born in 1984) is an American author and journalist. Her three historical novels are The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America, The Accidental Empress and Sisi, Empress on Her Own.
Biography
Pataki was born in New York. She is daughter of former New York State Governor and 2016 presidential candidate George Pataki Allison attended Yale University where she majored in English. The Revolutionary War history of her town inspired her to write her first book The Traitor's Wife based on the life of Benedict Arnold. Her book became a New York Times bestseller.
Alison's second and third books, also New York Times bestsellers, were The Accidental Empress and Sisi: Empress On Her Own, inspired by Allison's family roots in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Allison has written for ABCNews.com, The Huffington Post, FoxNews.com, Travel Girl, and other media outlets.
Personal
In 2016, Pataki wrote a piece for The New York Times detailing her family's experience with traumatic brain injury and recovery. In 2015, Pataki's husband, David Levy, suffered a near-fatal stroke while the couple were onboard a flight to Seattle.
Novels
- The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America (2014), published by Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster
- The Accidental Empress (2015), published by Howard Books a division of Simon & Schuster
- Sisi, Empress on Her Own (2016), published by The Dial Press, a division of Penguin Random House
- Where the Light Falls: A Novel of the French Revolution (2017)