Mr. Churchill's Secretary (MacNeal)

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1966
• Raised—Buffalo, New York, USA
• Education—B.A., Wellesley College
• Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York


Susan Elia MacNeal is an American writer best known for her Maggie Hope mystery series. She was raised in Buffalo, NY, and attended Wellesley College, where she cross-registered for classes at MIT. She also attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard.

Susan interned at Random House, then moved to Penguin publishers and, later, to McGraw-Hill. Eventually, she became an associate editor at Dance Magazine.

Mr. Churchill's Secetary, the first in the Maggie Hope mystery series, was published in 2012, followed by Princess Elizabeth's Spy in 2013. The third installment, The Prime Minister's Secret, is due out in 2014.

The first book won the 2013 Barry Award for Best Paperback original by Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine! The second was an Oprah Pick of the Week and won the Booky Award by BookGateway.com. Both books have been nominated for various other awards, including a Dilys, Edgar, Thriller, and Macavity, among others.

Susan's other writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Fordor's, Time Out New York, Time Out London, Publishers Weekly, and Dance Magazine. She has also written for various publications of the New York City Ballet and is the author of two nonfiction books.

Susan is married and lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York. (Adapted from the author's website.)