Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence, First Women—also a New York Times bestseller—and First in Line. Her book Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump is being published in May. Her children’s book Exploring the White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home will be published in December.

She is a CNN contributor and she covered the Obama White House for Bloomberg News. She is a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. The Residence has been optioned by Netflix with Shonda Rhimes producing. She lives outside of Washington, D.C.