Emily Croy Barker spent almost twenty years as a journalist. A graduate of Harvard University, she is currently the executive editor at The American Lawyer magazine, where she oversees international coverage. She lives in New Jersey. The...

“If Hermione Granger had been an American who never received an invitation to Hogwarts, this might have been her story.” —People Earning comparisons to wildly popular fantasy novels by Deborah Harkness and Lev Grossman, Emily Croy...