Tosca Lee

Official page of New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee. I was told there would be food here. She also studied at Oxford University.

“Superior storytelling.”
—Publisher’s Weekly starred review, for Havah

“Tosca Lee is a genius storyteller with a cinematic eye.”
—Ted Field, Founder/CEO, Radar Pictures

“A must-read literary triumph.”
—Booklist starred review for The Long March Home

“One of those exceptional works of literature that will linger in the mind.”
—Midwest Book Review, for The Line Between

TOSCA LEE is the New York

Times bestselling author of twelve novels including The Line Between, The Progeny, The Legend of Sheba, and Iscariot. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and optioned for TV and film. She is the recipient of multiple awards including two International Book Awards, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion, ECPA Book of the Year in Fiction, and the Nebraska Book Award. Her work has finaled for the High Plains Book Award, the Library of Virginia Reader’s Choice Award, the Christy Award, and a second ECPA Book of the Year. The Line Between was a Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist for Best Mystery/Thriller of 2019. In addition to the New York Times, her books have appeared on the IndieBound and inspirational bestseller lists, Library Journal’s Best Of lists, and as part of Target Stores’ “Target Recommends” program. Lee’s work has been praised by Publisher’s Weekly, The Historical Novel Society, Booklist, Kirkus, Woman’s World, BookReporter, The Dallas Morning News, and The Midwest Book Review, as “deeply human,” “powerful,” and “mind-bending historical fiction.” A public speaker with over 25 years of experience, Lee is a featured presenter and guest of honor at writer’s conferences and literary events throughout the world. She is a member of the Tall Poppy Writers and Rogue Women Writers and was recently elected to International Thriller Writers’ board of directors. Lee earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Smith College. A former Fortune Global 500 consultant with the Gallup Organization and first runner-up to Mrs. United States, she lives in Nebraska with her husband and three of four children still at home. For more on Tosca, please visit: www.toscalee.com.

06/12/2026

On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court overturned Virginia’s “Racial Integrity Law” that made in*******al marriage illegal. But it didn’t pave the way immediately. The following year in 1968 my parents were denied a marriage license because laws forbidding the marriage of a “white and non-white person” were still on the books in Georgia. This article was written about my parents’ marriage license application (though it does not mention them by name). Dad was finishing his PhD and living in Athens (Georgia) at the time.

06/12/2026

Take a morning walk with me. Sound up for narration, birdsong, and what I’m working on right now!

06/12/2026

It’s the gift that keeps on giving…

06/11/2026

Coming up in my next newsletter: the recipe for this awesome black cod I made the other night. And some sweet treats! You *are* receiving my super fun and delicious newsletter, aren’t you?? Link below just in case!

06/10/2026

Get ready with me—author edition. Including all the must have beverages and chores and my weird TV quirk. Because we all have our things. Right??

06/09/2026

I kept that too-small dog bed (because there was no way I was getting it back into the box) but we did get him a large mattress-sized new one for the living room (which he remains suspicious of). This morning I found him in the hallway outside our bedroom clinging to this dinky thing like it was a life preserver in scary robot vacuum-infested waters. 😂

06/09/2026

Late night discussion: do you get nostalgic? For places from the town you grew up in, foods you loved, old commercials, TV shows, people from your past? I have been these past few years—for everything from old shows to commercials. Lately I’ve tried to find out what happened to my first dance teacher. I imagine this is the luxury of having lived enough decades to be nostalgic (if you’re too young there’s not much to get nostalgic about, right??)

Pictured: young nerd Tosca, graduation day from Smith College (I had graduated a semester early and gotten married between December and the ceremony in May) and at Oxford University with one of my professors after fresh(wo)man year (Smith remains an all-woman college).