Laura C. Rader earned a BA in psychology from San Diego State University, where she minored in history and took creative writing and literature classes. She drew on those passions in her thirty-year career as a history and English teacher of elementary and middle school students.
Now, a full-time historical fiction writer, Laura also enjoys studying genealogy, attending neighborhood book club meetings, taking forest walks with her Rough Collie, and visiting her adult daughter in Brooklyn. Originally from California, Laura lives twenty miles north of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Laura's first novel, Hatfield 1677, will be published in May 2024. Hatfield 1677 is a work of historical fiction inspired by her ninth great-grandparents, Benjamin and Martha Waite.
