Amy Hill Hearth (pronounced "HARTH") is an American nonfiction author, novelist, and journalist whose work focuses on forgotten or overlooked voices and extraordinary stories from the past. Her first book was the groundbreaking work of oral history, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, a New York Times bestseller for 117 weeks. The book was adapted for Broadway and for an award-winning telefilm. Since the publicaation of Having Our Say in 1993, Ms. Hearth has written nine books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been published in ten languages and has won multiple awards, including a Peabody Award, a Septima Clark Book Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and two "Notable Book" citations from the American Library Association. She is a New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author. Her eleventh book and first historical thriller, Silent Came the Monster: A Novel of the 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks, will be published on May 16, 2023.