Mallory is an award winning and best-selling author and historian. She lives with her two cats in Los Angeles, where she is at work on her next nonfiction book.
Her next book, Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman is forthcoming from Hanover Square Press in February 2025.
Her first book, The Lady From The Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, is a Los Angeles Times bestseller. It won the 2019 SCIBA Award for Biography, the Rondo 2019 Book of the Year, and was nominated for Hugo and Locus awards.
Her second book, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, was released October 2021 to critical acclaim. It won a James Beard Award and was nominated for a 2022 Spirited Award.
Her third book, Girls Make Movies, co-created with cartoonist Jen Vaughn, was released in the spring of 2023. It is a 2023 Junior Library Guild Selection and was named one of the Best Children’s Books of Summer 2023 by Book Riot.
Every week since 2017, Mallory hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses alongside filmmaker and writer Brea Grant. The show is hosted by Maximum Fun and focuses on book culture and reader life.The No Pressure Book Journal by Mallory and Brea, a book of essays on how to read better combined with a book tracking journal, is forthcoming from Weldon Owen in January 2025.
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Mallory is represented by Amy Bishop at Trellis Literary Agency. She can be contacted at abwycisk@trellisliterary.com.
For book related press inquires, contact Laura Gianino at Laura.Gianino@harpercollins.com.
To request a speaking appearance, contact Christie Hinrichs at christie@authorsunbound.com, or (541) 797-2217.
For UK publicity inquiries, please contact Raminta Uselytė at raminta@hurstpub.co.uk.
You can find Mallory's Speaking Profile here.