Christina McDowell

Christina McDowell is a literary fiction and memoir author best known for her debut work “The Cave Dwellers.” The author was born in Washington DC and later on lived in McLean, an affluent suburb of Virginia. She lived the kind 0f privileged childhood which the Washington Post once referred to as summers in a mansion in Nantucket when not on a sprawling Georgian estate a few streets from Hickory Hill.She loves to say that she was brought up around quiet power. In fact, the father of one of her childhood friends worked on the atomic bomb. Christina’s father would end up indicted for stock fraud and wound up in prions just like Jordan Belfort the real life Wolf of Wall Street.Once they lost everything when her father went to prison, they had to move to Los Angeles where she got small acting jobs and also did a stint as an actor on reality TV.The author’s debut work The Cave Dwellers is a compelling story that explores the inner workings of the elite in Washington. It provides a glimpse into the world of tradition, power and money which has for decades had a significant impact on how everything works in the United States.McDowell’s novel was published in 2021 to much critical acclaim.