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Emma Parry

Biography

Emma Parry

Emma Parry is a literary agent in New York. Born in England, she’s now lived in America for half her life and championed hundreds of successful books. She first came across a reference to the “housewife who almost changed the course of the Revolutionary War” in Nathaniel Philbrick’s book, VALIANT AMBITION, a decade ago and has researched and imagined Peggy’s story in every off hour since. She spends her time between New York City and the house she built with her family in the Hudson Valley.

Emma Parry

Books by Emma Parry

Mrs. Benedict Arnold
by Emma Parry - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

Philadelphia in the 1770s. Peggy Shippen longs for the war she’s living through to end. Though not always appreciated at home, she finds her curiosity is welcomed by a lively and influential circle of friends, including a glamorous rising star in the British army, Captain John André. When the war separates them, Peggy is devastated --- both by his absence and the horrors of ongoing conflict --- before finding consolation in a man whose heroics for the Patriots have captured the world’s imagination: General Benedict Arnold. As she trades Loyalist balls for Patriot salons, entertaining the most prominent figures of early America, and navigating the country’s lethal political currents, she conceives of an audacious scheme to achieve peace and her family’s survival, unleashing what would become the most famous act of treason in history.