Lisa Wingate

Lisa Wingate was born in Germany in 1965, but was raised in Oklahoma after her family moved to the U.S. Wingate developed a love of writing as a young child when her first-grade teacher told her that her name would be in a magazine one day. From that point on, Wingate’s love for storytelling and writing turned into a passion. She went on to earn a B.A. in technical English but didn’t begin her career as a novelist until 2001 when she published her first book, Tending Roses. Since then, Wingate has published over 30 novels and novellas that have been translated into over 40 languages for publication all over the world. Additionally, Wingate’s works have received a number of nominations and awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, and the Goodreads Choice Award. Before We Were Yours is Wingate’s most well-known and widely praised novel; it spent over one year on the New York Times Bestseller List and won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. Wingate married her husband Sam in 1988 and the couple has two sons together. Wingate lives on her family’s farm in Texas.