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Mackenzi Lee

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Mackenzi Lee holds a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Atlas Obscura, the Boston Globe, Crixeo, and the Newport Review, among others. Her debut novel, This Monstrous Thing, won the PEN New England–Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award. Her second book, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, was a New York Times bestseller and an ABA bestseller, earned five starred reviews, was a #1 Indie Next Pick, and received a 2018 Stonewall Book Award Honor and a New England Book Award. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and Star Wars. On a perfect day, she can be found enjoying all three. She currently calls Salt Lake City home.

Mackenzi Lee Books

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks book cover

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

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The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky book cover

The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky

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The History of the World in Fifty Dogs book cover

The History of the World in Fifty Dogs

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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy book cover

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

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All Out book cover

All Out

Saundra Mitchell
Bygone Badass Broads book cover

Bygone Badass Broads

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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue book cover

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

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This Monstrous Thing book cover

This Monstrous Thing

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