• Christine Coulson worked at the Met for 25 years in various roles and knows the museum inside-out.
• Her popular 2016 nonfiction article about the Met in The New York Times Style Magazine was the basis for the novel.
• Rogues Gallery (Broadway, 2010), Michael Gross nonfiction expos© about The Met was a bestseller upon release.
• The Met received over 7 million visitors in 2017, giving the book a huge market potential.
• For readers of How to Be Both (Penguin, 2015) & The Goldfinch (Abacus, 2014).