American Wife

By Curtis Sittenfeld

Categories: Literature & Fiction

American Wife is a 2008 novel by Curtis Sittenfeld. Loosely inspired by the life of Laura Bush, it follows Alice Blackwell, a reserved librarian from small-town Wisconsin who marries the charming son of a powerful political family and eventually becomes First Lady.

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• Stephen King: “On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition (Scribner, 2010), per afterword list in On Writing (10th anniv. ed.)”