Freida McFadden

Freida McFadden was born Sara Cohen on May 1, 1980, in New York City. She grew up in midtown Manhattan with one sibling, and both her parents worked in medicine—her father as a psychiatrist and her mother as a podiatrist Wikipedia+1. She attended a competitive high school in New York City, studied mathematics at Harvard University, and later attended medical school at Stony Brook University Wikipedia+1. McFadden pursued a career in medicine, specializing in brain injury, while simultaneously writing fiction Wikipedia+1. She now lives outside Boston with her family and continues to practice medicine part-time Wikipedia+1.