William Kuhn is a biographer, historian, and the author, most recently, of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, an account of the editorial life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He lives in Boston, but spent a year with his family in London when he was eleven, and became an Anglophile as a result. He has spent and continues to spend a great deal of time in the UK and also write for a number of British newspapers and magazines. Mrs Queen Takes the Train is his first novel.