Sally Cabot Gunning

Sally Cabot Gunning lives with her husband in Brewster on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where her roots go back over three centuries. She came to writing at a young age, driven to it in desperation one rainy day when she ran out of books. Today Gunning focuses on digging out the back story to the history that we thought we knew but didn't, and giving it a human face. She is the author of five critically acclaimed historical novels: A trilogy set in New England during the tempestuous years that led up to the American Revolution -- The Widow's War, Bound, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke -- and Benjamin Franklin's Bastard and Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father. Her latest novel, Painting the Light -- set on Martha's Vineyard in 1898 -- will be released June 2021.