Books by Karen Abbott

Former Villanova English major Karen Abbott is the author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose, both New York Times bestsellers.  She is a featured contributor to Smithsonian magazine’s history blog, Past Imperfect, and also writes for Disunion, the New York Times series about the Civil War. A native of Philadelphia, where she worked as a journalist, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two African Grey parrots, Poe and Dexter. She’s at work on her next book, a true story of four daring (and not entirely scrupulous) Civil War spies who risked everything for their cause.  Click here to visit her homepage.