Eve LaPlante

Eve is writing Marmee & Louisa, a biography of Abigail and Louisa May Alcott, for Free Press. Her ancestor biography Salem Witch Judge (HarperOne), the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction and a Boston Globe paperback bestseller, followed American Jezebel (HarperOne), also a Globe bestseller, and the award-winning Seized (HarperCollins). Eve contributed to the essay collection Why I'm Still Married (Penguin), the anthology Boston: Voices and Visions (UMass Press), and the rhetorics text The Aims of Argument (McGraw-Hill). She has degrees from Princeton and Harvard and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents, Country Living, and Gourmet. She lives in New England with her husband and four children.

The winner of the 2008 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction.

"LaPlante's touching biography of Samuel Sewall... seems hauntingly familiar. Beneath the sensational title is a figure more familiar than we realize... Salem Witch Judge upends popular stereotypes about Puritans... [and] reminds us how quickly the conventional wisdom can shift, forcing even the powerful to move."


"LaPlante's splendid biography brings a personal touch to Sewall's story... Much as she did in American Jezebel, the marvelous biography of her 12th-generation ancestor Anne Hutchinson, LaPlante richly narrates his life... drawing on Sewall's diaries and stories told by her Aunt Charlotte."



Eve LaPlante is available for media interviews and to speak at public events. To schedule a book talk or other event, please contact her directly at this website. For a review copy of Salem Witch Judge or American Jezebel please contact publicist Julie Burton at julie.burton@​harpercollins.com or (415) 477-4407.