Lily Koppel is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist who has written extensively on topics such as women's history, relationships, and the human experience. She is the author of The Astronaut Wives Club, a non-fiction book about the wives of the Mercury 7 astronauts, which was adapted into an ABC television series. Her other books include The Red Leather Diary, a memoir about a lost diary she found in a second-hand store, and The Swan Thieves, a novel about an artist and a psychiatrist.