Audrey Clare Farley is a writer, book reviewer, and historian of twentieth-century American fiction and culture. She occasionally lectures in history and literature at universities. Farley's first book, "The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt," was published in 2021. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Public Books, Lady Science, Longreads, and Marginalia Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. Farley received a PhD in English from the University of Maryland at College Park.