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Yvonne Georgina Puig, originally from Houston, received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ in 2004. Her debut novel, A Wife of Noble Character, was published in hardcover by Henry Holt & Co in 2016, and in paperback with St. Martin’s Griffin in 2017.

She’s obsessed with Edith Wharton, whose work  provided inspiration for . She stresses that she’s not a Wharton expert, like others she met at Wharton’s home in Lenox, Mass., while working on her new novel. Recently, she discussed A Wife of Noble Character with the College of Arts and Sciences from her home in Santa Monica, Calif., where she lives with her husband.