Eve LaPlante

Eve LaPlante's award-winning book Salem Witch Judge (HarperOne, 2007, 2008) follows the Boston Globe bestseller American Jezebel (HarperOne, 2004, 2005) and Seized (HarperCollins, 1993, 2000). She contributed to the essay collection Why I'm Still Married (Penguin, 2006, 2007) and the rhetorics textbook The Aims of Argument (McGraw-Hill, 2008, 2010) and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents, Country Living, and Gourmet. LaPlante, who has degrees from Princeton and Harvard, lives with her family in New England.

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 Salem Witch Judge event, please contact her directly at this website. For a review copy or press release, please contact publicist Julie Burton at julie.burton@​harpercollins.com or (415) 477-4407.