Jennifer Steil

Jennifer Steil is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books. She has lived in several different countries. She edited a newspaper in Yemen, where she lived for four years. She was pregnant when she was kidnapped, which became the beginning of her novel The Ambassador’s Wife . Later, she and her infant daughter were evacuated after her British diplomat husband was attacked by a suicide bomber. She has moved around a lot since, drawing from these experiences for her novels.