Mary McNear
Mary McNear is an American author of women’s fiction novels. She writes the Butternut Lake series, and is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Mary bases her novels on a lifetime of summers spent in a small town on a lake in the northern Midwest. She writes her novels at a local doughnut shop, where she sips Diet Pepsi, observes the hustle and bustle of neighbourhood life. Mary resides in San Francisco with her husband, two teenage children, and a high-strung, tiny white dog named Macaroon.