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Kerri Maher

Kerri Maher is also the author of This Is Not A Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World under the name Kerri Majors. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and founded YARN, an award-winning literary journal of short-form YA writing. For many years a professor of writing, she now writes full time and lives with her daughter in Massachusetts where apple picking and long walks in the woods are especially fine.

Genres: Historical

Novels

   The Kennedy Debutante (2018)
   The Girl in White Gloves (2020)
   The Paris Bookseller (2022)
   All You Have to Do Is Call (2023)

Kerri Maher recommends

The Mademoiselle Alliance (2025)
Natasha Lester
"Marie-Madeleine Fourcade is the ultimate survivor - she escapes an abusive marriage and evades the Nazis again and again in her work as a spy for the Resistance. Deeply researched and gorgeously written, The Mademoiselle Alliance is a testament the strength of a remarkable, globetrotting woman willing to make unimaginably hard decisions in the service of family and country."

Mademoiselle Eiffel (2024)
Aimie K Runyan
"Aimie K. Runyan whips up a feast of a novel, full of the warmth and heart characters give each other during two despairing periods of French history. Recipes for boulangerie classics remind us of the power of simple ingredients, artfully assembled. Lisette and Micheline walk their own unique paths to happiness, fighting for their independence and finding loves that support their true selves. As delicious and satisfying as a perfect cup of chocolat chaud."

The Thirteenth Husband (2024)
Greer Macallister
"Greer Macallister's Aimee Crocker is exactly the kind of sassy, strong heroine you want to stay up late into the night gabbing with - and soaking up every detail of her epic life. I loved adventuring with Aimee from San Francisco to India and Japan, walking in the shoes of a woman who lived and loved life to the fullest. This is compulsively readable historical fiction!"

The Royal Windsor Secret (2023)
Christine Wells
"The Royal Windsor Secret takes us into the glittering demimonde of courtesans and precious gems, where long-held secrets make and destroy lives. Cleo Davenport is charming as an aspiring jewelry designer who travels the world in pursuit of her dreams and her true parents. Lush descriptions, detailed research, and exotic locales make this a standout from Christine Wells."

Her Lost Words (2023)
Stephanie Marie Thornton
"I could not turn these pages fast enough! The dual tales of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley are brilliantly interwoven by Thornton, whose prose sparkles with wit and wisdom about literature, romance, and family. The Marys are heroines for their time and ours, remarkable women with independent hearts and minds, true inspirations to anyone who dreams of making the world a better place."

The Winter Orphans (2022)
Kristin Beck
"Beck's latest is an engrossing tale of impossible choices, grace, and grit in the perilous depths of war. Skillfully rendered in beautiful prose, the survival stories of Rosli, Ella, and Anne-Marie held me in thrall to the end."

The Last Grand Duchess (2022)
Bryn Turnbull
"Ambitious and intimate, violent and tender, Bryn Turnbull's The Last Grand Duchess pulls aside some heavy curtains on Russia's history, spotlighting the tragically human characters in this royal drama. Olga Romanov is seared into my heart as the best kind of tragic heroine, one who fights and loves with every fiber of her being, even in the face of mortal danger. A deeply absorbing read."

The Social Graces (2021)
Renée Rosen
"By turns tender and devastating, this beautifully written novel kept me in thrall to the end."

Fast Girls (2020)
Elise Hooper
"Fast Girls will hurl you down the track of American history and have you rooting for some of the toughest underdogs ever to aspire to Olympic gold...I couldn’t put this one down."

Red Letter Days (2020)
Sarah Jane Stratford
"Red Letter Days is a blacklist-era game of cat and mouse that’s positively Shakespearean in its witty dialogue, forged identities, banishments, unexpected romance, and even its drama within the drama. The final lightning-speed pages left me breathless."

The Other Windsor Girl (2019)
Georgie Blalock
"The Other Windsor Girl is royally romantic, glamorous, and sexy... A must-read for royal-watchers and fans of The Crown."

The Chelsea Girls (2019)
Fiona Davis
"The Chelsea Girls is the thoroughly engrossing story of an authentic and complex female friendship under the intense pressures of the Cold War. Replete with international secrets and theatrical triumphs, it sings with the nuances, trials, and celebrations of real friendship in the darkest of times. A must-read for you and your best friends!"

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