Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family.
“Paula McLain cements herself as the writer of historical fictional
memoir with Circling the Sun, giving vivid voice to Beryl Markham,
a singular, extraordinary woman. In McLain’s confident hands,
Markham crackles to life, and we readers truly understand what made
a woman so far ahead of her time believe she had the power to
soar.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time
“Richly textured . . . Markham’s life is the stuff of legend.
. . . McLain has created a voice that is lush and intricate to
evoke a character who is enviably brave and independent.”—NPR
“Bold, absorbing fiction.”—New York Daily News
“Paula McLain has such a gift for bringing characters to life. I
loved discovering the singular Beryl Markham, with all her
strengths and passions and complexities, a woman who persistently
broke the rules, despite the personal cost. She’s a rebel in her
own time, and a heroine for ours.”—Jojo Moyes, author of Me
Before You
“By the last pages, readers will hate to say goodbye to such an
irresistible narrator.”—Miami Herald
“Paula McLain brings Beryl to glorious life, portraying a woman
with a great many flaws that seem to result from her zest for life
and inability to follow the roles expected of women in the 1920s
and ’30s.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Amelia Earhart gets all the airtime, but this pilot had the
juicier past. . . . McLain crafts a story readers won’t soon
forget.”—Good Housekeeping
“With a sharp eye for detail and style to spare, Paula McLain
captures the nuances of complex relationships, the rigidity of
social conventions, and the wide skies and breathtaking vistas of
Africa.”—Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
“Set in 1920s Kenya, this fictionalized history of the beautiful,
high-flying aviator Beryl Markham is as luminous as its headstrong
heroine. An exhilarating ride.”—Family Circle
“Paula McLain is yet another twenty-first-century woman who can
write rings around the hyper-masculine men who dominate so much of
American fiction.”—Liz Smith
“McLain’s skill at blending fact and fiction, which dazzled readers
in The Paris Wife, is on full display. . . . Circling the Sun is a
masterful story of hardship, courage and love.”—Shelf Awareness
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