Elizabeth Letts

Elizabeth Letts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three works of narrative nonfiction, including Finding Dorothy, The Perfect Horse, The Eighty-Dollar Champion, The Ride of Her Life, and her latest novel, Fallen for France. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and been frequent selections for One Book, One Community programs at libraries and organizations across the country.

Fallen for France (August 2026) tells the story of a radiant horse born in the Sultan’s palace in Morocco, the young boy who loves her, and their journeys into France as the Great War roars to life — at once an epic tale of a horse who binds people from different worlds together, and an examination of the forgotten role of colonial soldiers from North Africa in the world’s first truly global war.

Letts’s earlier books have received the PEN Award, and the Middle East Book Prize, among others, and have been selected as Indie Next and Library Reads selections. The Eighty-Dollar Champion spent more than forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for the Goodreads Reader’s Choice Award.

She is a graduate of Yale College as well as the Yale School of Nursing. She divides her time between Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Northern Michigan.