Ellen Marie Wiseman is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author known for writing novels based on real historical injustices, including The Orphan Collector, What She Left Behind, The Life She Was Given, and The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, which was an Indie Next selection and the B&N “Our Monthly Pick.” Born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in northern New York, she’s a first-generation German American who discovered her love of reading and writing while attending first grade in one of the last one-room schoolhouses in New York State. Since then, her novels have been published worldwide, translated into twenty languages, and sold more than one million copies in the United States alone. She lives with her family on the shores of Lake Ontario.
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