Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper Features ‘Beauty in the Broken Places’

Allison Pataki is the author of the bestselling novels Sisi, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Accidental Empress, as well as the co-author of Where the Light Falls, with her brother Owen Pataki, and two children’s books. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. The daughter of former New York State governor George E. Pataki, Allison Pataki and her husband, David, are passionate about raising awareness of the difficulties of life after a stroke or traumatic brain injury. She graduated cum laude from Yale University and lives in New York with her family.