Freida McFadden
Born: May 01, 1980 – New York City, New York, United States
Freida McFadden is a physician and bestselling novelist known for psychological thrillers that blend domestic suspense with medical insight. Her best-known books include The Housemaid and The Housemaid’s Secret. Writing under a pseudonym, she has reached millions of readers worldwide and appeared prominently on bestseller lists.
Biography & Author's Journey
Freida McFadden built her career at the intersection of medicine and commercial suspense. Born in New York City on May 1, 1980, she began writing stories as a child and, by middle school, was already drafting full-length thrillers. She later came to the Boston area for Harvard as an undergraduate, took writing courses, kept working on fiction, and went on to medical training and a career as a physician specializing in brain injury. Her public biography has long emphasized that dual life: a clinician with a family near Boston, and a writer whose deliberately limited public profile helped keep medicine and authorship in separate lanes. ((https://www.freidamcfadden.com/faq.html?utm_source=openai))
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"Freida McFadden didn’t mean to become a best-selling novelist"
— The Washington Post
"How Did 'The Housemaid' Author Freida McFadden Become the BookTok Queen of Crime Fiction?"
— Pajiba
"Roughly 3% of print adult fiction books sold in the U.S. last year were by The Housemaid author Freida McFadden"
— TIME
"Boston-based physician Freida McFadden writes best-selling thrillers"
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— Publishers Weekly
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