Allison Pataki is an American author and journalist born in New York in 1984. She has established herself as a writer of historical fiction, with six novels to her name. Her works include The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America, The Accidental Empress, Sisi Empress on Her Own, Where the Light Falls, and The Queen's Fortune. In addition to her historical novels, Pataki has written a memoir titled Beauty in the Broken Places.