Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence and First Women, also a New York Times bestseller, as well as Team Of Five, First In Line, and the children’s books Exploring the White House and The Hill. She also wrote the New York Times bestseller We the Women with Norah O’Donnell. Her latest book is The Confidantes: Secrets, Scandals & the Presidents’ Personal Secretaries. The Residence was made into an Emmy-nominated television series produced by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. Her book Elizabeth Taylor is the first authorized biography of the icon. She covered the Obama administration for Bloomberg News. She is also a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Kate has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband and their three young children.