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Author Bio
Birth—ca. 1969
Where—Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA
Education—B.A., Harvard College; J.D., Columbia Law School
Currently—lives in Chappaqua, NY


Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a law degree from Columbia Law School. She practiced trusts and estates law in New York City for eight years before moving out of the city to raise her two children with her husband.

Loigman wrote The Two-Family House while she was a student of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. The novel was chosen by Goodreads as a best book of the month for March, 2016, and was nominee for the Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards in Historical Fiction. The Wartime Sisters is her second novel.