Lynn Cullen

Lynn Cullen’s novel, Mrs. Poe, a national bestseller, was named a Book of the Week by People Magazine, a Target Book Club Pick, an NPR 2013 Great Read, an Indie Next List selection, a Penny’s Pick at Costco, an Oprah Book of the Week, and Best of 2013 by Atlanta Magazine. Her novel, Twain's End, was a People Magazine Book of the Week, an Indie Next Pick, a Townsend Prize finalist, named a Book All Georgians Should Read by the Georgia Center for the Book, and was featured, as was Mrs. Poe, in the New York Times Book Review Shortlist. She received the Georgia Author of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in June 2020 for The Sisters of Summit Avenue, a Publisher’s WeeklyBuzz Book. Her novels have been translated into seventeen languages and she has appeared on PBS American Masters. Her most recent book, The Woman with the Cure, a novel about the race for the polio vaccine, is receiving international acclaim and is a book club favorite. Lynn Cullen yearns to reach new readers who love to read the kind of books she pines for--books that make you marvel at our resilience and at our potential goodness.

She lives in Decatur, Georgia with her large family.