Sabra Waldfogel, who did not grow up in the South, studied history at Harvard University and got a PhD in American history from the University of Minnesota. Since then, she has been fascinated by the drama of slavery and its long shadow in American history.
Her first novel, Sister of Mine, published by Lake Union, was named the winner of the 2017 Audio Publishers Association Audie Award for fiction. The sequel, Let Me Fly, was published in 2018. Since then, she has written a duology about Southern Carolina at the time of the Civil War. Before turning her attention to Memphis, she wrote about Detroit during WW2. Before that, her book, The New South, was about the successful Black washerwomen’s strike of 1881 in Atlanta.
In her free time, not tired of history, she collects antiques and helps her husband in selling them.