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Peekskill Native Allison Pataki Publishes New Book About Habsburg Family

As Published By The Peekskill Daily Voice by Sam Barron:

PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — First, she explored Benedict Arnold’s wife. Now former Peekskill resident Allison Pataki has turned her attention to Eastern Europe.

allison-habsburgsPataki, daughter of former Gov. George Pataki, who lives in Garrison, just published her latest book, “The Accidental Empress.” The book is a follow-up to her debut historical fiction novel, “The Traitor’s Wife,” which came out last year and was about Benedict Arnold’s wife, Peggy Shippen.

“The Accidental Empress” is set in 1853 and is about Sisi, an Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph who was plucked from obscurity at the age of 16 and was thrust onto the throne in the golden era of the Habsburg Family.

“She was the last great empress,” said Pataki. “She was charismatic like Marie Antoinette meets Anne Boleyn meets Catherine the Great.”

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Allison Pataki is a New York Times Bestselling author with a passion for telling the stories of leading ladies lost in history. Her debut novel, The Traitor’s Wife, came out in 2014 and her second novel, The Accidental Empress, came out in February 2015. Allison’s third New York Times Bestseller, Sisi: Empress on Her Own, hit shelves March 2016. In 2017 her fourth historical novel, Where the Light Falls, was published. Beauty in the Broken Places was released in 2019, a Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience. In May 2019 she published her first children’s book, Nelly Takes New York. Her fifth historical novel, The Queens Fortune, released February 2020 and her second children’s book, Poppy Takes Paris released May of 2020. Her instant bestseller The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post came out in early 2022. Her next historical fiction novel, Finding Margaret Fuller, hit the shelves March of 2024.
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