Lucia St. Clair Robson

Lucia St. Clair Robson is an American author of historical fiction born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida. Before becoming a full-time writer, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela, taught in Brooklyn, lived in Japan and worked as a public librarian in Annapolis. Her library career strengthened the research skills that became central to her fiction, particularly her ability to locate obscure historical sources and reconstruct the lives of people who received limited attention in conventional histories. Her debut novel, Ride the Wind, became a New York Times bestseller and received a Spur Award from Western Writers of America.

Robson’s novels range across the American frontier, Indigenous history, Revolutionary America, feudal Japan and the Mexican Revolution. Ride the Wind follows Cynthia Ann Parker and the Comanche people, while Walk in My Soul depicts Tiana Rogers, Sam Houston and the Cherokee Nation. Light a Distant Fire centres on Osceola and Seminole resistance; Ghost Warrior portrays the Apache warrior and spiritual leader Lozen; and Fearless reimagines the life of Mexican-American War figure Sarah Bowman. Her other books include The Tokaido Road, set during the revenge of the forty-seven rōnin; Shadow Patriots, about George Washington’s intelligence network; and Last Train from Cuernavaca, which follows women caught in the Mexican Revolution.