About
Molly Beer is an essayist and documentary nonfiction writer. Her most recent work is Angelica, a biography of the American Revolution's Angelica Schuyler Church (W. W. Norton, 2025).
Praise for Angelica:
"A compelling, richly contextualized portrait of a woman whose life reframes and challenges familiar Revolutionary War narratives." -- The Library Journal
"In Angelica, Molly Beer traces the life and times of the eldest Schuyler daughter...In measured passages, Ms. Beer presents a confident, urbane, and intelligent woman...She approaches her subject with even-tempered humanity." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Angelica offers a fresh, arresting history of the American Revolution as people lived it: facing forward. Molly Beer recovers the suspense, perils, and dazzling possibilities of the era—not to mention its textures, sounds, and tastes. Her lapidary prose and keen sense of character brings Angelica Schuyler Church, her family, and her world to vivid, unforgettable life, making a great global event into a family drama, and vice versa." -- Jane Kamensky, author of A Revolution in Color and president of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Photo credit: H Romero.
