Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt is an American bestselling author known for writing literature and fiction. She was born in Pound Ridge, New York to an editor and painter and was the last born of six siblings. Hunt was brought up in an 18th-century house that was full of books, both bad and good ones. While it was not haunted in the classic sense of the word, she asserts that she found it haunting. In 1989 she went to college at the University of Vermont where she studied geology, printmaking, and literature. She would then proceed to Warren Wilson College from where she got her MFA before moving to New York City in 1999. While she was working to become a professional author she did a stint in an envelope making factory.