Jennifer Chiaverini


Jennifer Chiaverini is a New York Times bestselling author of several historical novels and the Elm Creek Quilts series, as well as six collections of quilt patterns inspired by her books.
Her original quilt designs have been featured in Country Woman, Quiltmaker, Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Volumes 3-5, and Quilt, and her short stories have appeared in Quiltmaker and Quilter's Newsletter. She also designed the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines for Red Rooster Fabrics. Her first book, The Quilter's Apprentice, was released in 1999.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she taught writing in the English Departments of Penn State and Edgewood College. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, she currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin.
About her historical fiction, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes, “In addition to simply being fascinating stories, these novels go a long way in capturing the texture of life for women, rich and poor, black and white, in those perilous years.”
Chiaverini's 2016 book, Fates and Traitors, tells the story of John Wilkes Booth from Booth's point of view.
In 2017, Chiaverini released Enchantress of the Numbers, a historical novel about the mathematician Ada Lovelace.

Elm Creek Quilts novels

  1. The Quilter's Apprentice
  2. Round Robin
  3. The Cross-Country Quilters
  4. The Runaway Quilt
  5. The Quilter's Legacy
  6. The Master Quilter
  7. The Sugar Camp Quilt
  8. The Christmas Quilt
  9. Circle of Quilters
  10. The Quilter's Homecoming
  11. The New Year's Quilt
  12. The Winding Ways Quilt
  13. The Quilter's Kitchen
  14. The Lost Quilter
  15. A Quilter's Holiday
  16. The Aloha Quilt
  17. The Union Quilters
  18. The Wedding Quilt
  19. Sonoma Rose
  20. The Giving Quilt
  21. The Christmas Boutique
  22. The Museum of Lost Quilts
  23. ''The World's Fair Quilt''

    Collections of quilt patterns inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts novels

  24. Elm Creek Quilts: Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels
  25. Return to Elm Creek: More Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels
  26. More Elm Creek Quilts: 11 Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels
  27. ''Sylvia's Bridal Sampler from Elm Creek Quilts''

    Historical novels

  28. Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
  29. The Spymistress
  30. Mrs. Lincoln's Rival
  31. Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
  32. Christmas Bells
  33. Fates and Traitors
  34. Enchantress of Numbers
  35. Resistance Women
  36. Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters
  37. The Women's March
  38. ''Switchboard Soldiers''